2006 Oklahoma Sooners Football Team - Post Season

Post Season

As the 2006 college football season neared the end, many organizations began to announce finalists and winners of various post-season awards. Sooner players and coaches appeared on many of these lists. Head coach Bob Stoops was unanimously named Coach of the Year on the AT&T All-Big 12 Coaches Team. This is the third time he's won the award, more than any other coach in league history. Stoops was also named a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year award, a national award handed out by the Football Writer's Association of America. Oklahoma defensive coordinator/linebacker coach/associate head coach Brent Venables was named one of five finalists for the Broyles Award which goes to the nation's best assistant coach.

Several players for the Sooners were also honored. Oklahoma junior kicker Garrett Hartley was named a finalist for the Lou Groza Award. Oklahoma senior linebacker Rufus Alexander was named the AT&T All-Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year. He is the third Oklahoma player to earn this honor, following Teddy Lehman in 2003 and Roy Williams in 2001. Many of Oklahoma's players were also named to the All–Big 12 First and Second Team:

Oklahoma's lone All-American this year was linebacker Rufus Alexander. He was given first team All-American status by the American Football Coaches Association.

The 2007 NFL Draft took place in New York City on April 29 and April 30, 2007. Three players from the team were selected during the two day draft. Adrian Peterson was the first to go. He was the seventh selection of the draft and was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings. Peterson was the highest Sooner drafted since Cedric Jones was drafted as the fifth pick in 1996. There was a long wait between Oklahoma's first player to go and the second. Rufus Alexander was also picked by the Vikings as their sixth round selection (pick 176). In the seventh and last round, C.J. Ah You was selected by the Buffalo Bills (pick 239).