Shawn Oakman

Shawn Michael Oakman (born April 7, 1992) is an American football defensive end for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

He played college football for the Baylor Bears.

Oakman has been a member of the Triangle Torch and the West Virginia Roughriders of the American Arena League (AAL), the Bismarck Bucks of Champions Indoor Football (CIF), and the Los Angeles Wildcats of the XFL.

Oakman attended Penn Wood High School in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.

He played both football and basketball.

He committed to play college football at Penn State University in July 2010.

Oakman was redshirted as a true freshman at PSU in 2011.

On February 27, 2012, Penn State announced that Oakman had been dismissed from the Nittany Lions football team for an unspecified violation of team rules.

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Oakman transferred to Baylor University in July 2012.

As per NCAA transfer rules, Oakman took the entire 2012 season off.

Oakman played in 13 games as a backup defensive end in 2013.

He recorded 33 tackles and two sacks.

In his first year as a starter, Oakman had a breakout season in 2014.

He finished the season with 25.5 tackles for loss and 11.0 sacks.

He earned third-team All-America honors from the Associated Press and was a consensus All-Big 12 selection.

Oakman was projected by some analysts and scouts to be a first round pick in the 2015 NFL Draft.

Instead of declaring for the draft, he decided to return to Baylor for his senior season.

In 2015, Oakman was not able to match his successful 2014 season.

He recorded only 4.5 sacks in 2015.

Oakman's production dropped in 2015 and his draft stock fell throughout the season.

One AFC area scout commented that he would not select Oakman in the first three rounds of the draft.

Some of the concerns about Oakman were his skinny lower body, lack of pass-rush technique, and "inconsistent motor chasing plays and inability to make plays against better competition".

Several early mock drafts projected Oakman to be a first round pick in the 2016 NFL Draft.

Chris Burke of Sports Illustrated penciled in Oakman as the first overall pick in his "2016 NFL Mock Draft 1.0," which was published a few days after the conclusion of the 2015 NFL Draft.

After Oakman's arrest on a sexual assault charge, which occurred only two weeks before the 2016 NFL Draft, an NFC executive told Lance Zierlein of NFL.com that Oakman was "undraftable now" because the case is unlikely to be resolved before the start of the draft.

Zierlein believed the arrest would likely result in Oakman being removed from all NFL team boards.

Oakman went undrafted in the 2016 NFL Draft.

After the draft, he wasn't expected to get signed as an undrafted free agent due to the legal issues he was facing at the time.

He was subsequently found not guilty of the alleged sexual assault.

In November 2017, Oakman signed with the Triangle Torch of the American Arena League.

He helped lead the Triangle Torch to the AIF Championship but lost a close game to Cape Fear Heroes.

On March 8, 2018 Oakman signed with the Bismarck Bucks of Champions Indoor Football.

On April 6, 2019, Oakman signed with The Spring League and was assigned to the Austin Generals.

He helped lead the Austin Generals to win the 2019 TSL reagular season title.

In June 2019, Shawn Oakman signed with the West Virginia Roughriders of the American Arena League.

On October 16, 2019, Oakman was drafted to the Los Angeles Wildcats of the XFL.

He was waived on December 17, 2019.

The Wildcats re-signed Oakman on January 24, 2020.

In his debut game, Oakman had a sack and a pass deflected.