Observations from Arkansas football's fifth spring practice
It was another windy day at Arkansas football spring practice, which made life difficult for the quarterbacks. Here's what we saw on Thursday.
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football held its fifth spring practice on Thursday, April 2, and the Razorbacks are gearing up for their first scrimmage of the preseason this weekend. It was a windy day on the Walker Pavilion Outdoor Practice Fields, which made life difficult for the quarterbacks. The Southwest Times Record spent time watching the gunslingers, the secondary and the offensive line.
On Tuesday, we dissected the quarterbacks, defensive linemen and skill positions . Here are three takeaways from Thursday's practice. Arkansas football quarterbacks struggle in team drills It was a rough day for both KJ Jackson and AJ Hill in 11-on-11 action.
Neither player could lead the offense to a score in two-minute drills, and their completion percentage came woefully shy of the 65% quarterbacks coach Mitch Stewart said that his room strides for in practice. Jackson worked with the first-team offense and had a nice pass up the seam to Jamari Hawkins, but he failed to record another completion in the drill. AJ Hill found receivers for short gains on each of his first four passes, but then he had four straight incompletions to end the drill.
He was a unfortunate not to lead a scoring drive as freshman Dequane Prevo dropped a pass on third-down that would have gone for at least 15 yards. There wasn't much more success in another 11-on-11 drill later in practice. Hill showed decent chemistry with New Mexico transfer Donovan Faupel, but it's obvious that the receivers and quarterbacks are still learning each other's tendencies.