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It’s report card season at Razorbacks Wire.
All you need to pass the course is a C. Anything worse than that can result in revocation of your scholarship. The question, Arkansas, is did you make it?
Silly introductions aside, grading the Razorbacks in the 2023 football season was actually a bit harder than normal. Injuries shook things up, weighing one unit’s defeciencies against another’s was tricky, one group had some great and some awful.
Arkansas was just a mess in all possible ways this fall. The Razorbacks were bad, but not *that* bad, ya know?
So, we gave them a grade accordingly. It’s up to you to determine whether they advance or if they have to re-take the course.
Quarterbacks
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The 2023 season was supposed to be the one in which KJ Jefferson showed any few who didn’t know about him that he was, indeed, one of the best quarterbacks in college football.
He never had a chance.
Jefferson was sacked more than 40 times as Arkansas’ porous offensive line gave Jefferson the least amount of time to throw as pass as he had since high school, if not longer. They didn’t block for him much on the ground, either.
Some fans want to blame Jefferson for the root of Arkansas’ offensive troubles. He deserves the least of the blame. But we still have to grade on results.
Grade: C-
Running backs
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Rocket Sanders wasn’t good in Arkansas’ opener against Western Carolina, then when he tweaked his knee in Week 2, the Hogs were pretty much toast. AJ Green is a change-of-pace guy. Rashod Dubinion didn’t take a step forward. Dominique Johnson never got another chance, really. Isaiah Augustave, well, who knows.
Let’s put it this way: Sanders ran for more yards by himself in 2022 than the entire Arkansas running back corps ran for in 2023. Their grade is safed from total…
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Author : Razorbacks Wire
Publish date : 2023-11-26 16:24:22
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