{"id":1300,"date":"2010-09-17T10:43:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2018-08-08T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:05:32","slug":"landry-jones-garners-sooner-of-the-week-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/landry-jones-garners-sooner-of-the-week-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Landry Jones Garners &#8220;Sooner of the Week&#8221; Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>New Mexico Native Shines for National Football Power<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former <strong>NSR<\/strong> prospect and <strong>Oklahoma Sooner<\/strong> QB <strong>Landry Jones<\/strong> from Artesia, NM lit up the <strong>Florida State<\/strong> Seminole secondary for 380 yards and four touchdowns on Sept. 11 in Norman and was named Sooner of the Week.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0c2a75;\"><em>soonersnews.com<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 But, that&#8217;s nothing new for the prolific passer.\u00a0 So far in Landry&#8217;s OU career, he has been named Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year honorable mention by league&#8217;s coaches and All-Big 12 Freshman by <strong>ESPN.com<\/strong>.\u00a0 He became the Sooner starter after <strong>Heisman Trophy<\/strong> winner <strong>Sam Bradford<\/strong> went out with an injury.\u00a0 He earned his first career start against <strong>Idaho State<\/strong> and responded with three touchdown passes.\u00a0 Landry&#8217;s\u00a0418 passing yards in the <strong>Sun Bowl<\/strong> vs. <strong><a href=\"www.gostanford.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/stan-m-footbl-body\">Stanf<\/a>o<a href=\"www.gostanford.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/stan-m-footbl-body\">rd<\/a><\/strong> set a Sooner bowl record and rated as the second-best total in Sun Bowl history.\u00a0 In that game, he completed 30-of-51 passes with three touchdowns and one interception.\u00a0 In the regular season, he threw a school-record six touchdown passes against <strong>Tulsa<\/strong> (the previous mark of five was held by two Heisman winners, Sam Bradford and <strong>Jason White<\/strong>, and a Heisman runner-up, <strong>Josh Heupel<\/strong>).\u00a0 He led all freshmen nationally with 26 TD passes and 3,198 passing yards while eclipsing Sam Bradford&#8217;s freshman passing yards mark at OU (previous best was 3,121 yards).\u00a0 He also tied the school record for pass attempts with 58 vs. <strong>Nebraska<\/strong> and threw for 392 yards against <strong>Texas A&amp;M<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico Native Shines for National Football Power Former NSR prospect and Oklahoma Sooner QB Landry Jones from Artesia, NM lit up the Florida State Seminole secondary for 380 yards and four touchdowns on Sept. 11 in Norman and was named Sooner of the Week.\u00a0 soonersnews.com\u00a0 But, that&#8217;s nothing new for the prolific passer.\u00a0 So &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/landry-jones-garners-sooner-of-the-week-honor\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15116,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/15116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}