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Nothing about Drake Stoop’s career has been conventional. That includes his first step to the NFL.

Six years after starting his college career as a walk-on at Oklahoma, Stoops agreed to sign as an undrafted free agent with the Los Angeles Rams, according to his agent, Kelli Masters.

Stoops went undrafted on the final day of the NFL Draft on Saturday but accepted a free agent deal with the Rams shortly after the completion of the seventh round.

Stoops’ signing with the Rams is the next step in what has been an improbable arc for Stoops, who began his career as a walk-on receiver who was known more for being the son of legendary Sooners coach Bob Stoops. In the six years since he first stepped foot on Oklahoma’s campus as a freshman, though, Stoops worked to step out of his father’s shadow and make a name for himself with the Sooners.

He turned down scholarship opportunities at Ohio, Western Kentucky, Air Force, Iowa and Memphis coming out of Norman North High, instead choosing to walk on with the program he was intimately familiar with growing up watching his father’s teams. Instead of becoming a footnote in OU history —the walk-on son of the program’s winningest coach — Stoops made his own legacy with the Sooners.