247Sports: Oklahoma QB commit Jackson Arnold gets rave reviews after winning MVP at Elite 11 Finals

By Staff Report Jul 1, 2022, 11:00am

Future Sooner threw for 3,921 yards and 34 TDs while running for nearly 700 and 12 more scores as a junior at Denton Guyer.

By Sam Marsdale
247Sports

Guyer (Denton, Texas) five-star quarterback and Oklahoma commit Jackson Arnold took home MVP of this week's Elite 11 Finals camp in Los Angeles. Arnold beat out a number of quarterbacks to earn the award.

Arnold competed with the Class of 2023's top quarterbacks at the Los Angeles-based event. Los Alamitos (Calif.) five-star quarterback and USC commit Malachi Nelson was the highest-ranked prospect on the scene, the industry-generated 247Sports Composite's No. 2 overall prospect, who is ranked only behind Newman (New Orleans, La.) five-star quarterback and Texas commit Arch Manning. Manning did not attend the Elite 11 Finals.

Arnold is the 247Sports Composite's No. 32 overall prospect, No. 5 quarterback and No. 5 prospect in the Lone Star State. Arnold committed Jan. 24 to the Sooners over a number of other offers from Power Five programs.

247Sports director of recruiting Steve Wiltfong summed up Arnold's performances early on.

"The ball comes out of his hand different than his peers in this setting," Wiltfong wrote in an article published Wednesday. "The strong armed passer was consistent, accurate outside the pocket and spins it more like the college guys at the camp than the other high school signal-callers."



Jackson Arnold rose above a star-studded field at the Elite 11 Finals this week in Los Angeles.
Jackson Arnold rose above a star-studded field at the Elite 11 Finals this week in Los Angeles.
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