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Arkansas’ football’s fall practices are officially started

Arkansas is pretty set on offense, but position battles in the secondary bear watching.

Football season is here.

Arkansas was back on the field Friday for its first football practice of the 2023 season. Things were about the same as they were in the spring, but some minor changes could make a world of difference when the season begins.

A handful of Razorbacks players who spent last year or the spring injured are healthy. None of them are expected to be starters, exactly, but their availability helps depth, especially as about half of them could see time on the second team.

Defensive end Landon Jackson, a transfer from LSU, looked recovered from an ACL injury and was the second-unit end. Jaqualyn Crawford broke his leg in the spring, but was going full speed Friday. And Dorian Gerald, back for a seventh season of college football, was looking to make his way up the depth chart after the NCAA granted him another year.

Position battles in the secondary will highlight camp. Arkansas brought in starters from LSU and Georgia in Dwight McGlothern and Latavious Brini in the offeseason, but both were on the second unit Friday. LaDarrius Bishop, who started at one of the cornerback spots last year, was also on the second unit.

Arkansas opens its season September 3 at home against Cincinnati.

Seventh time’s a charm: Dorian Gerald back with Hogs for seventh season

Dorian Gerald will play a fifth year with the Razorbacks and seventh of college football.

Not many college athletes get seven years to play their favorite sport. Not many college athletes have had the wild career of Dorian Gerald, either.

The Arkansas defensive end removed his name from the transfer portal last week, ensuring his seventh season of college football will be with the Razorbacks. Gerald had entered the portal in late April.

The 2022 season will be Gerald’s fifth at Arkansas. He was the No. 1 junior-college defensive end recruit in the country when he arrived to Fayetteville in 2018. But in those four years since, he’s really only managed about a season-and-a-half. For his Arkansas career, Gerald has played in just 15 games.

Gerald has had two leg injuries and a neck injury limited his availability at Arkansas. But if he’s healthy, there’s reason to believe he will be in the rotation for the Razorbacks at defensive end.

Arkansas lost three starters from the defensive line in the offseason.

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He was the most coveted defensive end in JUCO, now he’s in the transfer portal

Dorian Gerald will play a seventh season of college football somewhere other than Arkansas.

[autotag]Dorian Gerald[/autotag] was a top-five junior-college player in the country when he announced his commitment to Arkansas in 2018.

Four years and too many injuries later, Gerald is heading elsewhere for his final season of college football.

The 6-foot-3, 265-pound defensive end entered the transfer portal, per a report by WholeHogSports on Monday. He will play a seventh season of college football after two seasons of junior-college ball and four years at Arkansas. Gerald was only healthy for about one and a half of those seasons, having suffered two leg injuries and a neck injury during his time with the Razorbacks.

Gerald played in just one game last year. He broke his leg in practice after Week 1 against Rice.

In his four years, Gerald ultimately played in 15 games – just seven in his last three years – registering 27 tackles with four for-loss.