Kyler Murray will be all smiles this weekend. But he still has one big regret about his time at Oklahoma.

“I hate that I only got one season here,” Murray said Friday.

The former Oklahoma quarterback flew back to the Sooner State on Friday for a formal event welcoming him home — and revealing his new statue that will be unveiled to the public on Saturday in Heisman Park.

Just like 2017 winner Baker Mayfield did last year, Murray — already a four-year starter in the NFL with the Arizona Cardinals — stood with his 2018 trophy and lined up with other past Heisman winners Jason White, Sam Bradford, Billy Sims and Mayfield, and posed to an adoring audience.

Before Friday’s event, Murray sat down with OU’s social media team to recount not just his magical season, but the patience he needed just to get the job.

“It wasn’t always perfect. I had to wait — the patience deal,” Murray said. “And then to come out on top, in a sense, after all the hard work.”

Murray not only won the Heisman, but, like Mayfield before him, he became the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Drat the following spring.

Murray left Allen High School with a 43-0 record as the starting quarterback and signed with Texas A&M for the 2015 season.

But after a year in College Station, he realized that wasn’t the place he wanted to be. At the end of the ’15 season, he called Lincoln Riley and eventually came to Oklahoma.

Riley’s sales pitch at the time was that Mayfield, who transferred from Texas Tech, redshirted and then won the job in 2015, would play his final college season in 2016.

The plan seemed perfect as Murray redshirted 2016 and was ready to slot right behind Mayfield in 2017.

But the Big 12 Conference heard Mayfield’s appeal for an additional year — he was made to redshirt after transferring despite being a walk-on at both Tech and OU — and eventually granted him a year of eligibility for 2017.

It was dubbed the Baker Mayfield Rule to not penalize players who pay their own way through school.

But it wasn’t the ideal outcome for Murray, who backed up Mayfield in 2017 before taking over as the starter in 2018.

“The fact that I did trust in the process and not transferring again or whatever it may be — because nowadays, the transfer portal, stuff like that. I stuck it through, trusted the people around me, made great relationships, great friendships — lifelong, you know, with the coaches and stuff like that.

“I’m grateful for everything that happened here. I wouldn’t change it for the world. Only thing I would change is being able to play one more year. Play one more year. I hate that I only got one season here. But no, I loved my time here.”

Murray’s Heisman journey continues Saturday when his statue will be unveiled to the public in Heisman Park — that ceremony is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. — and then he’ll be back on Owen Field at halftime of the Sooners’ annual Red/White Game, which kicks off at 2:30 p.m.

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