From Southeastern Louisiana to the Southeastern Conference, from playing high school ball in Dothan, AL, to playing a college game in Auburn, AL, from playing quarterback to playing tight end, Oklahoma’s Bauer Sharp is adept at rolling with the situation.
Need an acrobatic third-down catch? No problem. Need a hard-nosed plunge on the goal line? Easy peasy. Need a tough down-block on a 260-pound defensive end?
Bauer Sharp is your guy.
“I trust whatever our team has planned for me in the future for these games,” Sharp said Tuesday after practice. “We’ll get it done for our team for sure.”
Quarterback Jackson Arnold said pretty much the same thing last spring, but with much more effusive praise.
“Yeah, he’s extremely athletic. He’s super physical too,” Arnold said. “Obviously he runs great routes and catches the ball, but he’ll go and move some people in the run game too, which is what I love. He’ll do it all, you know? And of course, like you said, he’s super athletic, and that showed the first week when he was here. We were running routes and you could tell this dude was a little different.”
The 6-foot-4, 247-pound Sharp had but one scholarship offer coming out of Dothan as an unrated quarterback prospect, and it was for the Lions of Southeastern Louisiana, a solid program on the FCS level. He redshirted as a true freshman in 2021, then made the move to tight end the following spring.
That fall, Sharp caught 11 passes for 78 yards and a touchdown, and also doubled as a wildcat quarterback by running the ball 10 times for 83 yards and a score. That included a 55-yard touchdown on a fake punt.
