Oklahoma State Football: Ranking the 10 best players on the roster

Oklahoma State football enters 2017 with enormous expectations, and these 10 players will have the biggest say in the team’s success this season.

The Oklahoma State football program enters the 2017 season with a large amount of hype following a solid end to 2016. The amount of talent returning on offense puts the Pokes among some of the best offenses in the country. OK State returns nine starters on offense but only five on defense. Talent is still plentiful on both sides of the ball.

Oklahoma State has been ranked as high as no. 6 in many editions of way too early top 25 polls for the 2017 season, by media outlets such as ESPN and Bleacher Report. Yet, many question the ability of the Cowboy defense to keep some of the better Big 12 offenses from putting up enormous numbers, especially the likes of the Oklahoma Sooners, Baylor Bears, and Texas Tech Red Raiders.

This list was determined by multiple factors including the overall talent of each player, pedigree of their career in Stillwater, potential for success during the 2017 season, and the role played in the past success of Oklahoma State. Obviously, the younger and less experienced the player, the harder it will be for them to make to to the top of this list.

The order of this list and the actual players on it will change during the course of the season, and that’s one of the great parts of ranking this type of stuff. Preseason speculation is just one of the few things that college football fans get to push themselves through the struggle of dealing with the offseason months.

Since significant offseason events such as Spring Games, National Signing Day, Spring Practice, and the bulk of the transfer period have concluded, fans have to sit and wait for media days to come around. Now, let’s take a look at a ranking that hopefully can get Big 12 and Oklahoma State football fans’ minds off of the wait for the 2017 season, at least for a little bit.