Price Check · 2026 Week 2
Drew Mestemaker
QB · Redshirt sophomore · Oklahoma State
Reported NIL Valuation
$3,500,000
Drew Mestemaker's annual NIL value, as of January 3, 2026. A single-season figure carried as reported, not estimated by The NIL Standard. Reported by Tulsa World.
The figure above is not our estimate; it is the 2026 figure the Tulsa World reported in January, carried as reported. Week 2 was the loudest game of his career and the messiest: 317 passing yards, 109 rushing yards and three touchdowns in a 39–31 win over No. 6 Oregon, against two interceptions that Oregon turned into 14 of its 31 points.
Week 2
Oklahoma State beat No. 6 Oregon 39–31 at Boone Pickens Stadium, September 12, 2026.
26
Completions
317
Passing yards
2
Touchdown passes
2
Interceptions
- By halftime
- 14 cmp, 179 yds, 2 TD, 2 INT
- Longest completion
- 52 yds
Oklahoma State's first play from scrimmage was a 75-yard run up the middle by Mestemaker himself, from the 22 to the Oregon 3.
Share of the offense
How much of Oklahoma State's ground game went through one player.
- Rushing yards109 of 23746.0%
The touchdowns
- Q212:541 yards — Third-and-1 at the Oregon 1, to Carson Kolb, capping a 5-play, 47-yard drive that started at the Oregon 47 after a turnover on downs.
- Q23:4752 yards — First-and-10 at the Oklahoma State 48, deep down the middle to Wyatt Young, four plays after Oregon had closed to 17-14 off the second interception.
- Q410:2110 yards — A run, not a pass: the last play of a 12-play, 75-yard drive after Oregon had gone ahead 31-30. The two-point try failed.
What it beat
A 12-game losing streak, ended
Oklahoma State had not won since its 2025 opener: eleven straight losses to close a 1-11 season, beginning with a 69-3 loss at Oregon, then a 24-10 loss at Tulsa to open 2026. The team that started the skid is the one it ended against.
No. 6 Oregon, beaten in Stillwater
The Ducks arrived ranked sixth, a year after beating Oklahoma State 69-3 in Eugene, and were outgained 554 yards to 281 in a game delayed 90 minutes at the start by weather.
Eric Morris's first win as Oklahoma State's coach
Mestemaker, Wyatt Young and Caleb Hawkins all followed Morris from North Texas. Young caught 5 passes for 121 yards and the 52-yard score; Hawkins ran 23 times for 110 yards and a touchdown.
The season before
319
Completions
4,379
Passing yards
34
Touchdown passes
9
Interceptions
- His 4,379 passing yards led the nation as a redshirt freshman at North Texas, as did his 312.8 passing yards per game, 4,468 yards of total offense and 9.46 yards per attempt.
- He completed 319 of 463 passes, 68.9%, with 34 touchdowns against 9 interceptions; only one FBS quarterback threw more touchdowns.
- He started all 14 games and won the Burlsworth Trophy, given to the most outstanding player who began his career as a walk-on.
The passing line
- Drew Mestemaker26/43, 317 yds, 2 TD, 2 INT
Oklahoma State threw for 317 yards across 26 receptions and 2 touchdowns, out of 554 total yards.
The reported price, revisited
The question this page can ask is not whether an estimate held, because the figure above is not one. It is whether the price the Tulsa World reported looks right against the work. On Saturday it did: 26 of 43 for 317 yards, 7.4 an attempt, 109 rushing yards on 6 carries, three touchdowns, and the 12-play drive that answered Oregon's only lead of the second half, against the sixth-ranked team in the country, a year after that team won 69-3.
The two-game body of work cuts the other way. The Tulsa and Oregon box scores added together read 55 of 92, 59.8%, for 558 yards, 3 touchdowns and 4 interceptions, a 112.8 rating. Both of Saturday's interceptions were tipped, and both became Oregon touchdowns: Devon Jackson returned the first 96 yards, and Matayo Uiagalelei returned the second to the 1, where Oregon scored on the next snap. Fourteen of Oregon's 31 points came directly off his throws. Three touchdowns to four interceptions is not yet the line of a quarterback priced near the top of our board.
A figure carried as reported moves only when the reporting moves; our model does not touch it. The number stands because the report stands. The case for it on the field is one game old, and it is a case with two interceptions in it.
The valuation above is a single-season figure reported by Tulsa World, as of January 3, 2026; it is carried as reported, not estimated by The NIL Standard. Game figures are operator-supplied and were checked against the official box score on September 15, 2026; they are reported figures, not estimates, and this database holds no game or box-score data of its own. Record-book and 2025 season figures were checked on September 15, 2026 against Oklahoma State's official 2025 and 2026 schedules, the player's official Oklahoma State bio and the official Tulsa box score.