Hogs get late addition to running back room with weekend commit from Arkansas high-schooler

Javyean Dyer-Jones joins a loaded Arkansas running back corps that could be the SEC’s best.

Running back was already going to be the biggest strength of the Arkansas football team. The unit became even deeper over the weekend.

Javyean Dyer-Jones, a senior at Little Rock Christian, will join the team in 2022 as a preferred walk-on. The 5-foot-9, 195-pounder picked Arkansas over likely scholarships from Arkansas State and Louisiana Tech.

He joins a stacked Arkansas backfield that returns three players who each ran for more than 500 yards last year, plus speedster AJ Green who ran for more than 225.

Dyer-Jones ran for 1,756 yards and 20 touchdowns in helping LRC to the Class 5A state semifinals in the fall.

These are the players he will join at running back, in order of likely depth chart entering September.