Cowboys capture North Texas KB
Eric Morris brings a resume that contains coaching Patrick Mahomes and Cam Ward yes Oklahoma State football. All before they signed big money contracts in the NFL. Morris now has his first Cowboys quarterback in a familiar face in North Texas’ Drew Mestemaker.
4,379 yard passer made his College football transfer portal official destination on Saturday via Hayes Favcett of On3/Rivals. Even though Mestemaker knows Morris’ system, there is still a catch to this move.
Pete Nakos of On3/Rivals discovered the catch including the Mestemaker that runs from Denton, Texas to Stillwater.
“Sources tell On3Sports it’s a two-year deal for Drew Mestemaker at Oklahoma State,” Nakos said on social media website X, formerly Twitter.
Drew Mestemaker is part of the new CFB era at Oklahoma State
That’s right — the two-year deal is tied to Mestemaker’s decision to play for the Cowboys. All part of the new era of NIL and portal decisions.
It’s also a sign that the Cowboys are moving with the times.
Longtime head coach Mike Gundy was fired after a 1-2 start. Multiple reports revealed that Gundy struggled to adapt to the CFB’s new climate amid the transfer of players and athletes who signed NIL contracts.
The Cowboys have an OSU NIL alliance as its own collective for student-athletes. Presumably, Morris used that to help his future Oklahoma State players.
Regardless, Mestemaker made a lot of waves during the 2025 season.
He threw a whopping 608 yards against Charlotte in a 54-20 rout of North Texas October 24. Mestemaker delivered three games with four touchdowns and finished with 34 TDs.
UNT’s freshman pursuit of the American Athletic Conference title before falling to eventual champion Tulane. That loss knocked the Mean Green out of a 12-team College Football Playoff spot.
Now Mestemaker will aim to revive a once-proud program that fell to 1-11 last season — Stillwater’s worst mark since the 1991 0-10-1 season.
2026-01-03 23:12:00
