Hogs pick up another ’20 commitment out of East Texas with Dixon

Chad Morris’ direction to recruit in Texas isn’t wavering at all as Carthage athlete Kelvontay Dixon committed Thursday to play for Arkansas in a tweet.

Committed?? @CoachTraylor pic.twitter.com/Ca77yzWsHE

— Kelvontay_3 (@kelvontay3) July 4, 2019

One of things that many contribute to the Razorbacks’ slide over the past decade has been a lack of recruiting in the Lone Star state, which annually produces more highly-rated players than any other.

Morris and his staff, especially running backs coach Jeff Traylor, knows the area, particularly East Texas, which has produced an abundance of big-time players for decades.

How strong?

One example is Ron Meyer when he took over the SMU program in 1976, targeted East Texas as a primary area to get players “because I really liked the players down there.”

The Mustangs had a large amount of players from that area that produced the program that had the highest winning percentage of anybody in college football.

Say what you want about HOW they got the players, but it wasn’t much different from everybody else in those days … SMU just bragged about how they did it publicly more than anybody else.

Dixon is the 11th verbal commitment for the 2020 class and eight are from Texas. Traylor has been responsible for five of those eight.

He will join Carthage teammate Ty’Kiest Crawford, a highly-rated offensive lineman, in committing to the Razorbacks.

Dixon is a composite three-star who is also expected to be a return specialist.