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FB Recruiting HawgBeat Big Board Notebook: September 9, 2020

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The Big Board: https://arkansas.rivals.com/news/hawgbeat-2021-target-big-board

Since the last Big Board update, six of the 79 players that were still undecided have made commitments (including Ketron Jackson!), leaving 73 available. Only 28 of them are 4-stars and the Hogs aren't trending for any of those 4-stars left.

The class is ranked 22nd right now which is really, really good all things considered. I don't think they'll finish in the top 25 but top 35 is a definite possibility. Schools consistently in the top 25 like Auburn, Penn State, Florida State are all low on numbers so they'll likely push Arkansas out but it's about as good of a situation as most probably could've asked for. Much rather be Arkansas than Ole Miss with 12 commits and ranked 58th. Hogs will probably finish 9th or 10th in the conference this year ahead of Miss St, Ole Miss, Kentucky, SC and Vandy.

The only major loss from the Big Board this week is 4-star OL Kingsley Suamataia. He obviously had a lot of love for Pittman and Davis but it was always Oregon for him. Armon Bethea from NY and Remington Strickland from TX look like the strongest possibilities at this point but they're not putting much pressure on from what I can tell.

With Ketron on board, think OL is really the last hold up on the offensive side. Eyes will be peeled for a transfer TE

As for the defensive side, if yall recall Cameron Ball was supposed to be announcing on his dad's birthday at the end of the month but he's postponed his decision indefinitely. Not great news and not totally sure what's going on there. Still got a few months but at some point if things don't start trending positively for Ball or Albert Regis I assume they'll push for a flip from Memphis commit Myron Green. They're also staying in content with two very large DEs in Jerrell Boykins from Louisiana and Jailen Weaver from California. Hogs made Tenn DE Javon Nelson's top five with Vandy, VTtech, NC State and Virginia but he doesn't talk much and I don't hear much talk about him this way so don't think he's coming here but will keep trying to get the latest from him. No movement on the JUCO targets at the moment

Done at LB and may be done at DB. They've got room for another DB I'd say but they're not trending with any of the top targets left and they've got a lot of youth so don't think they need to stretch for a target they're not that hot on. Maybe guys will pop up as they play their senior seasons. *Update on MJ Daniels*

Any questions, lmk! What're yall thinking of this class right now?
 
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