South Carolina · L 25-42
4 catches, 13 yards
The other 7 games average 83 yards. This one was 70 below.
Dashed line: 100 yards.
“Arbuckle has to stop scheming everything around Mateer and Sategna”
As of
The Arkansas transfer became Oklahoma's offensive anchor in 2025: 67 catches, 965 yards, eight touchdowns, first-team All-SEC, and a reputation as the Sooners' most dependable weapon on a 10-3 College Football Playoff team. He brings track-caliber speed and, just as valuable, consistency — the kind of receiver a quarterback trusts on third down. He forwent the draft to return. The forward stakes are a step from proven SEC No. 1 to genuine NFL-prospect headliner: the production and the speed are established, so 2026 is about a bigger volume and a deeper highlight reel in an offense that runs through him.
Update (Oct. 28, 2026): Oklahoma lost 21-13 to Kentucky as a 7-point favorite on Oct. 17, then beat Mississippi State 23-15 on Oct. 24 and is 4-3. Sategna has 41 catches for 578 yards and 3 touchdowns through seven games, including 8 catches for 164 yards and a touchdown at Mississippi State.
Play style
Sategna is a speed-based, reliable No. 1 — the receiver an offense organizes around. The signature traits are well-documented: track-level straight-line speed that stresses a defense vertically, paired with the dependability that made him Oklahoma's most-targeted and most-trusted option (a team-leading 67 catches). He's a separator who can take the top off and also work the intermediate routes, rather than a contested-catch specialist. The profile is an every-down SEC No. 1 whose ceiling in 2026 is tied to volume and an offense leaning on him even harder.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Share of the team's total this season.
Seen from behind the quarterback; numbers are yards past the line of scrimmage. The play text only says left, middle or right, so inside a lane marks are sorted, not placed. Of his catches with a spot in the play text: left 15, middle 8, right 17.
Fans first named Isaiah Sategna at Michigan.
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Last game (Wk 9): 13 receiving yards, 4 catches.
Game log · Week-by-week
2026 season · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 51-0vs UTEP | 4 | 76 | 19.0 | 1 | 34 | |
| Wk 2 | L 10-17@ Michigan | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 3 | W 14-6vs New Mexico | 6 | 101 | 16.8 | 1 | 53 | |
| Wk 4 | L 13-41@ No. 2 Georgia | 8 | 81 | 10.1 | 0 | 37 | |
| Wk 6 | W 27-24vs No. 1 Texas | 5 | 64 | 12.8 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 7 | L 13-21vs No. 15 Kentucky | 8 | 83 | 10.4 | 0 | 25 | |
| Wk 8 | W 23-15@ Mississippi State | 8 | 164 | 20.5 | 1 | 54 | Season-high 164 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 25-42vs South Carolina | 4 | 13 | 3.3 | 0 | 8 | |
| Total | 45 | 591 | 13.1 | 3 | 54 |
Oct. 31 · L 25-42 vs South Carolina, play by play
4 catches for 13 yards. Oklahoma threw to him on 8 of its 43 passes. Oklahoma’s last two throws to him, down 42-19 in the fourth quarter, fell incomplete.
Incomplete on 3rd and 10. Second quarter, down 7-0.
8-yard catch on 3rd and 16. Second quarter, down 21-7. Converted.
A big game: 8 catches for 164 yards and a touchdown, his most this season. Oklahoma threw to him on 11 of its 28 passes. He was 4 of 7 on third and fourth down.
4-yard catch on 3rd and 22. First quarter, up 3-0.
4-yard catch on 3rd and 3. Second quarter, up 3-0. Converted.
9-yard catch on 3rd and 2. Second quarter, up 3-0. Converted.
54-yard catch on 3rd and 6. Third quarter, up 17-7. Converted.
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8 catches for 83 yards. Oklahoma threw to him on 13 of its 41 passes.
6-yard catch on 3rd and 4. First quarter, down 7-0. Converted.
25-yard catch. Third quarter, up 10-7.
Incomplete on 3rd and 4. Third quarter, up 10-7.
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5 catches for 64 yards. Oklahoma threw to him on 10 of its 26 passes. He was 0 of 4 on third and fourth down.
9-yard catch on 3rd and 15. Second quarter, down 14-7.
Incomplete on 3rd and 3. Third quarter, down 17-10. Broken up by Texas’s G. Littleton.
Incomplete on 3rd and 7. Fourth quarter, tied 17-17. Broken up by Texas’s L. Jackson.
20-yard catch. Fourth quarter, tied 24-24. Fans named him again and again right after: the most-talked-about moment of his game.
“Yeah Sategna, point at the ground again because the ref saw it last time too.”Oklahoma fan, r/CFB game thread
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8 catches for 81 yards. Oklahoma threw to him on 9 of its 32 passes. 63 of the 81 came before halftime.
37-yard catch. Second quarter, down 14-0.
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6 catches for 101 yards and a touchdown. Oklahoma threw to him on 7 of its 26 passes. He was 2 of 3 on third and fourth down.
11-yard catch on 3rd and 5. First quarter, tied 0-0. Converted.
14-yard catch on 3rd and 7. First quarter, tied 0-0. Converted.
53-yard touchdown. Third quarter, made it 14-6.
Incomplete on 3rd and 3. Fourth quarter, up 14-6. Broken up by New Mexico’s O. Arnold.
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2 catches for 9 yards. Oklahoma threw to him on 10 of its 32 passes. Oklahoma’s last three throws to him, down 17-10 in the fourth quarter, fell incomplete.
Incomplete on 3rd and 4. First quarter, tied 0-0.
Incomplete on 3rd and 7. Second quarter, down 7-0.
6-yard catch on 3rd and 11. Fourth quarter, down 10-7.
Incomplete on 2nd and 8. Fourth quarter, down 17-10. Fans named him again and again right after: the most-talked-about moment of his game.
“The announcer were glazing sategna but he looks pretty bad”Ohio State fan, r/CFB game thread
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Week 8 · 2026
W 23-15
The plays that mattered most
46th in receiving yards, among all 2,086 FBS players with a receiving row this season, any position
Conference ranks count every player in the conference with a row in that stat, any position. Career ranks count current FBS players, from the games in our log.
Ratings of the games shown run from +6 to +27 points against an average team (SP+ rating of each opponent).
Receiver profile · Targets, catch rate, and throw depth
How often he's targeted, and how well it works
Targets
7331% of team targetsCatch rate
62%45 of 73 targetsBehind LOS · Negative air yds
Short · 0–9 air yds
Middle · 10–19 air yds
Deep · 20+ air yds
62% catch rate on 73 targets · 31% of the team's targets · 40% catch rate on 15 deep targets (20+ air yds).
Splits · Per-game
2026 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 5.5 | 68.2 | 12.4 | 0.5 |
| Road3g | 6.0 | 84.7 | 11.7 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 5.5 | 69.0 | 12.3 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 6.0 | 88.5 | 11.9 | 0.5 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brent Venables
Pass share
48.6%
250 pass / 264 run
Plays / game
64.2
8 games
Team sack rate
7.5%
293 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2026
45 catches and 9 carries in 8 games, more catches a game than nearly every FBS receiver who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #50 at the position.
2026 outlook
In the mix for All-SEC
Based on 2025: #4 of 58 SEC WRs
A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 35% of returning players who ranked #4–10 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 31–38%).
One of 52 players who were elite at two different things in 2025. See the others ›
2026 is in progress.
A stat line in 46 games over five seasons.
The role got bigger.
Coaching lineage · 2022–2026
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Sam Pittman and Brent Venables.
