The up-and-down collegiate career of Du’Vonta Lampkin has taken yet another downward turn.
According to SoonerScoop.com, Lampkin is not suited up for OU’s 2017 opener against UTEP. The reason for the defensive tackle being sidelined? A suspension for violating unspecified team rules.
The news comes after Lampkin’s name wasn’t on the two-deep depth chart heading into the opener.Backup DT Du’Vonta Lampkin is not suited out today. (Suspension)
— SoonerScoop.com (@SoonerScoop) September 2, 2017
This marks Lampkin’s second suspension in less than a year.
In mid-September of last year, Bob Stoops confirmed that Lampkin was in the midst of serving a six-game suspension. According to the then-OU head coach, the suspension stemmed from the Orange Bowl playoff game the year before; what specific incident in or around that CFP semifinal that triggered the punitive measures is unknown.
Lampkin, meanwhile, was a three-star signee as part of rival Texas’ 2015 recruiting class, but couldn’t enroll at UT because of a foreign language requirement. Charlie Strong, though, wouldn’t give Lampkin a release from his scholarship — the UT head coach “[didn’t] want to set [the] precedent that recruits can fail [a] course and go elsewhere” — leading Lampkin to appeal the decision.
In August of 2015, Lampkin announced that he would be enrolling at OU. The three-star recruit took a redshirt as a true freshman, then played in five games last season after serving his suspension.
