Oklahoma State University Athletics
2024 Cowboy Football Roster
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Cale Cabbiness
- Height:
- 6-2
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Norman, OK
- High School:
- Norman North
2024 CSC Academic All-District
2024 Academic All-Big 12
2023 First Team Academic All-Big 12
2022 First Team Academic All-Big 12
2021 First Team Academic All-Big 12
Career Highs
Receptions 2 vs. UAPB, 2022
Receiving Yards 37 vs. UAPB, 2022
Receiving TDs 1 vs. UAPB, 2022
Long Reception 25 vs. UAPB, 2022
Long Kickoff Return 51 vs. West Virginia, 2024
All-Purpose Yards 67 vs. UAPB, 2022
A former walk-on who was put on scholarship in the spring of 2023 ... Played in five seasons and made a game-sealing catch at Boise State in 2021 ... Brother, Cason, was also a wide receiver at Oklahoma State.
2024 (Senior): An Academic All-Big 12 honoree for a fourth consecutive season ... A CSC Academic All-District Team selection ... Played in all 12 games ... Recorded two catches for 14 yards on the year, with a seven-yard catch in the win over Arkansas and a seven-yard catch against TCU ... Had six kickoff returns for 155 yards on the year ... His 25.8 yards kickoff return average was the best on the team ... Recorded a career-long 51-yard kickoff return against West Virginia that also marked OSU’s longest kick return of the season ... His 169 all-purpose yards on the year ranked No. 9 on the team ... Ranked among the top 20 players in the Big 12 for combined kick return yards in the season ... Had a tackle against Baylor ... Served as a game captain against BYU.
2023 (Junior): A first team Academic All-Big 12 honoree ... Played in the final seven games of the season ... Made one catch for 10 yards ... His catch gained a first down with less than three and a half minutes remaining in OSU’s one-possession win over Texas A&M in the Texas Bowl.
2022 (Sophomore): A first team Academic All-Big 12 honoree for the second straight season ... Played in all 13 games, mostly on special teams ... Made two catches for 37 yards in the win over UAPB, including a 25-yard touchdown that marked a career long and his first career score ... Recorded five kickoff returns for 87 yards, including a long of 30 yards against UAPB ... His kickoff return yardage for the year ranked third on the team behind Jaden Nixon and Brennan Presley ... Finished the year with 124 all-purpose yards with a high of 67 yards against UAPB.
2021 (Freshman): A first team Academic All-Big 12 honoree ... Saw action in seven games ... Made an enormously important catch the first time he was targeted in his career ... With the Cowboys leading Boise State, 21-20, and less than two minutes remaining in the game, quarterback Spencer Sanders lofted the ball down the sideline on a 3rd-and-7 play that Cabbiness got to just before the BSU defender ... He wrestled the ball in and maintained contested possession to the ground to get the first down and allow the Cowboys to kneel out the rest of the clock after the play ... The reception gained 24 yards for OSU’s longest passing play of the game and was the lone catch of the season for Cabbiness ... He was lifted up on the sideline by his teammates after the play and rallied around in the locker room following the game.
2020: Earned a role on the travel squad in his first season ... Saw action against both Texas Tech and Baylor but did not record any stats.
High School: Played for coach Justin Jones at Norman North ... Played in all 10 games as a senior in 2019, recording 22 catches for 400 yards and led his team with six touchdown catches ... Played significantly in multiple seasons.
Personal: Full name is Cale Morgan Cabbiness ... Brother, Cason, is a wide receiver at Oklahoma State ... Late father, Carl Cabbiness II, played wide receiver at Oklahoma ... Cousin, Cade Cabbiness played baseball for OSU ... Grandfather, Billy Tubbs, coached basketball at Oklahoma.
