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Burks on another preseason All-American team
Arkansas’ Treylon Burks landed on another preseason All-American team over the weekend, named to Pro Football Network’s first team offense.
It wasn’t about his numbers last year, either. He is viewed as a potentially high draft pick for next year’s draft, assuming he stays healthy throughout his third year with the Razorbacks.
In the spring he cut his weight from 232 to 225 pounds when new wide receivers coach Kenny Guiton came on. Playing in just 10 games last season (and barely in one of those) due to the covid stuff, Burks was second team All-SEC with 51 catches for 820 yards (16.1 yards per catch) and seven touchdowns.
In the story, written by Oliver Hodgkinson, they said Burks was “the real deal.”
“He possesses an insane blend of size (he’s 6-3 and just over 230 pounds), speed, and power,” they wrote. “Moreover, the Arkansas wide receiver has uncommon hand size to help him snare the football. Blessed with the versatility to impact the game in multiple ways, Burks should emerge as one of the best players in the nation this year.”
Now he needs to stay healthy for an entire year and the Hogs have to figure out a way to get him the ball with a new quarterback and not a lot of proven playmakers to stick around him.
When Mike Woods took his act to Norman, the only consistent receiving threat left is Burks and you can bet teams are going to double-team and zone him to try and take him out of the offensive game plan.
That leaves it to offensive coordinator Kendal Briles to figure out ways to get the ball in Burks’ hands where he can get into open field. New quarterback KJ Jefferson has to show he has the consistency to get the ball to Burks.
Two-sport athlete from Fayetteville heading to Oregon
Isaiah Sategna of Fayetteville had a birthday Sunday, but his present went to Oregon, choosing the Ducks over Southern Cal in his final two schools.
The speedy wide receiver and track star originally committed to Texas A&M, but pulled that back in June and starting making official visits to Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon and USC.
He announced the decision through a social media post Sunday morning:
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Whether the Razorbacks were ever that close to getting a lot of interest from Sategna isn’t exactly known, but going to the Ducks was obviously a decision made in part to wanting to be part of a top-tier track program.
Hayward Field likely played a big role in Sategna’s commitment to Oregon.
“It is definitely the best facility I’ve seen,” he told Ducks Digest. “I’d basically say it’s the best in the world. It obviously doesn’t compare to any college stadiums.”
Sategna also wanted a school that has a strong history of athletes playing two sports.
“It’s pretty cool that they’ve had people do what I want to do,” Sategna said of Oregon’s dual-sport excellence. “Some schools say you can do this, but they haven’t had anybody. Oregon has a record of players doing both, so they can back up what they say.”
Smith on Hogs’ run last year, getting ready for pro ball, new NIL regulations
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CBS’ rankings of SEC coaches puts Pittman at No. 11
About the only reaction you can have when seeing Sam Pittman ranked No. 11 in a ranking of SEC coaches by CBS Sports and 247Sports earlier this week is, well, he’s not at the bottom.
After the last three head coaches dove into the basement of the SEC’s coaches, Pittman has managed to move up three spots. Don’t bring up the fact the only ones behind him haven’t coached a game in the league.
Here’s some of what what Barrett Sallee wrote about Pittman in the story:
Arkansas definitely took on the hard-nosed mindset of its new coach last season when it re-established itself as a physical force that might not beat you, but will beat you up.
While the 3-2 start to last season gives fans hope for the coming season, the four straight losses to finish the year is a cause for concern. It’s probably the reason the Razorbacks aren’t getting a lot of respect.
Getting those three wins at the end of the season would have been more positive, but that wasn’t going to happen with Alabama thrown in there at the end.
But this team should have finished 6-4 at the worst. They lost games they should have won against Auburn, LSU and Missouri. The problem from this seat was a lack of depth and special teams that were only special in a lack of consistency.
With all the problems of the covid panic last season, Pittman really didn’t have much of an opportunity to show what he can do.
He did get the team playing harder. They do have some star-quality players, but just not enough of them. To get to the next level they need about 30 more players at that level.
With the annual SEC Media Daze about 10 days away, there are far more questions about this year’s Hogs than answers. Last year has no effect on this season and they have a starting quarterback that had significant minutes in one game last year at the end.
I don’t want to hear about how Missouri drove down the field at the end to win it, it was still a loss and quarterbacks — like coaches — are judged on wins and losses. Don’t talk to me about the games the Hogs “almost won” last year because “almost” don’t matter.
Pittman doesn’t care about rankings and all the noise. Like most career line coaches he’s able to tune out most of the noise and hasn’t appeared yet to have developed rabbit ears about criticism from fans and media.
He also doesn’t need folks making excuses for failure, either.
You either win or lose and how you do it makes no difference.
