Here's what we know about the offensive line so far: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/arkansas-ol-starting-to-come-into-focus

Coincidentally, most of these new offers are already top-100 prospects: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/arkansas-gets-jump-on-2023-recruiting
Up to about 44 2023 offers, i'm probably missing a couple: https://arkansas.rivals.com/search#?formValues={"sport":"Football","recruit_year":2023,"prospect_profiles.prospect_colleges.college_common_name":["Arkansas"],"offer_and_visit_type":["Offer"],"prospect_profiles.prospect_colleges.offer":true,"page_number":1,"page_size":50,"sort":{"hometown":{"order":"desc"}}} (Hit search)

@DaltonG started acknowledging some futurecasts of prospects so I thought I'd compile remaining target info into a post:

Two scholarships available for '21:

Michael James - FC Virginia Tech
Jahmai Mashack - FC Tennessee
James White - FC Ole Miss
Carter Whitt - FC Nebraska (six months ago - at this point the Hogs are still in the mix but he is not discussing his recruitment with anyone)
Trey Alexander - Old FC Texas Tech, two FC to Oklahoma a month ago
DaRon Holmes - FC Arizona
Arthur Kaluma - FC UNLV
Jalen Ricks - Fairly certain he's a Tulsa or TAMU lean
Daimion Collins - don't see Arkansas having a shot


Not saying FCs are 100% accurate or set in stone, but if those do hold, options remaining:

Johnathan Lawson
Michael Foster
Moussa Diabate
Alex Fudge
Jordan Nesbitt
David Okwera

I can try to reach out to some of these guys this week, though some of them I have already tried and gotten no response, so I don't want to push too hard. Could also be a possibility that the staff doesn't sign another freshman and fills with two GTs. I mentioned that was the goal in a perfect recruiting cycle: sign Harrison Ingram and Okwera and 2 GTs to load up for '22.

Ranking likely candidates, based on information available, recent FCs, and interviews I've conducted, the most likely freshman prospects for '21 are:

Lawson, Alexander, Okwera.

I go back and forth on this.
yes you want the ball in the hands of your best / most dynamic player as much as possible
yes I believe coach Fountain will improve ST dramatically to help him out
but
I don’t like the thought of him getting hurt on ST, he got destroyed several times last year due to terrible ST plays, once by his own teammate 22 Edwards
We can still be good on ST without him, i don’t beleive we would be as good on offense without him. We need him at WR 100% of time

risk vs reward doesn’t seem to work here for me, can 1 special teams play win us a game (receiving, obviously coverage has cost us a few times), maybe
but him not being 100% at wr would affect this offense dramatically. We can make it without him on ST, not sure we can on O

and yes I realize you can get hurt on any play, anywhere, in game, practice or goofing around

thoughts?

Posting as a thread because he didn’t really give me enough to write a full article, and Johnathan never got back with me, so I’ll give y’all the highlights:

- “Johnathan just wants to be on a platform to showcase his talent.“

- Said Muss’s staff and their NBA experience could help Johnathan “achieve his dream” of playing professional ball. Also said the staff would prepare him off the court.

- Recruiting process has been difficult with not being able to see campuses, but “the only good thing was that he had already visited Arkansas” before the pandemic and everything closed.

- said “Coach Muss loves big guards.” Followed that with “Johnathan will fit in his system so long as he trust the process.”

- Blue collar work ethic. Cuts grass any day it’s not raining. Does skill development training or speed/conditioning training every single day.

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tonight is the finale for the season.
Hearsay say's it's gonna be a good one

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Blaylock caught 18 passes for 310 yards and five TDs as a true freshman before going down with an ACL injury last year. He was a 6.0 four-star recruit in the Bulldogs' 2019 class.

Georgia, of course, comes to Fayetteville to open the season Sept. 26.

Details on the cross country, soccer and volleyball seasons + fall events in golf/tennis and exhibitions for baseball/softball... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/other-sec-fall-sports-to-play-modified-seasons-in-2020

To be honest, one of the best all around sources of info and commentary with every hurricane

Great stuff from intern Ryan who I've tasked with learning the recruiting ropes and getting to know some of these young guys: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/ra...up-cade-klubnik-javae-gilmore-desaun-williams

That most of the 1st team offense and defense is pretty well set. . .

Reason I say that is this.

QB) Franks has pretty much taken all the reps with the 1st string. He obviously the guy there.
RB) Boyd is your guy. No doubts there.
TE) Henry is your guy so long as he’s healthy.
WR) Woods no doubt
WR) Knox no doubt
WR) Burks no doubt ( sorry, soundcore)
OT) Cunningham has exclusively been on the 1st team
C) Stromberg is your guy here. Pittman likes him at Center and they haven’t been sending guys who were in doubt to start to do zoom interviews.

The two Guard spots and one Tackle spot seems to be still up for grabs. Although I think Jones, Limmer, and Gatlin are possibly pulling away from the rest of the pack. Clenin, unless he has another patent disappearing act, could be the main guy to knock one of the guards out of their spot.

On Defense it’s pretty much been the same crew the whole camp.

DE)Coates
DE) Gerald
DT) Marshall
DT) Kelly

LB) Pool
LB) Morgan

NB) Brooks
CB) Brown
CB) Jacobs
S) Foucha
S) Mason

Now, once Catalon is healthy I expect him to end up starting over Mason.
Out side of that, the only possible change that could happen is if Draper were to somehow beat Morgan out.
Other than that, there could be guys like Soli come in on certain schemes and situations but otherwise this seems to be the defense.

So right now it really just seems like we are waiting on a few oline spots to be nailed down and maybe a Punter but otherwise we are close to having our starters ironed out. If course the scrimmage could blow all of this up but I doubt it.

No change for Solomon Wright (no position ranking)
Keuan Parker moved from No. 42 CB to No. 39
No change for Chase Lowery (no position ranking)
No change for Jermaine H-J (no position ranking)
Raheim Sanders went from the No.23 ranked athlete to No. 12 (the player ranked 9th is a 4-star)
No change for Marco Avant or Chris Paul (Paul's still the No. 24 ILB)

Today's notebook is particularly loaded with tons of info/tidbits... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/hawgbeat-camp-notebook-1st-day-of-full-pads-qb1-standouts-more

Nikki and I will have a lot more content over the next few days. Lots of stuff to digest from the past two days of interviews.

1's
LT: Myron Cunningham
LG: Shane Clenin
C: Ty Clary
RG: Beaux Limmer
RT: Brady Latham

2's
LT: Marcus Henderson
LG: Luke Jones
C: Ricky Stromberg
RG: Ryan Winkel
RT: Noah Gatlin

3's
LT: Dylan Rathcke
LG: Jalen St. John
C: Austin Nix
RG: Ray Curry Jr.
RT: Dalton Wagner

NOT IN TOP 3
Drew Vest
Payton Simpson

OPTED OUT
Chibueze Nwanna

Really enjoyed our interview with Dorian on Monday. Here's a story about him returning from the freak injury he suffered last year... https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/after-freak-injury-gerald-excited-to-return-to-action

https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/hawgbeat-2020-fall-camp-headquarters

Roster rundown series, position breakdowns and depth charts, biggest questions, etc are all in there and we'll be putting all our daily fall camp content in there as well in case u missed something.

We get Sam Pittman and two players at 6:30 tonight after practice

The wait is over. https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/morris-tabs-ben-hicks-as-qb1-for-portland-state

From intern @RyanCasper: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/ar...rks-looking-forward-to-increased-role-in-2020