The Recruiting Guy

Razorback Night Camp 1 Updates

Arkansas’ Chad Morris is one of five new SEC football coaches who have completed their first set of spring drills with their new teams. Morris said he is well aware of the challenges the conference presents. “I can’t control the other teams,” Morris said. “What I can control is the Arkansas Razorbacks.”

Arkansas football coach Chad Morris will conduct his staff's first on-campus camp today starting at 5 pm. Updates will be posted throughout the evening.

The Razorback Night Camp 1 will feature grades 9-12 for the upcoming school year. Some of the prospects expected to take part include Hazen junior tight end-defensive end Blayne Toll, 6-5, 235, junior tight end-linebacker Bryant Burns, 6-3, 210 of Ozark, sophomore tight end Eric Outley, 6-4, 235 of Little Rock Parkview and junior athlete Jabari Small, 5-10, 170 of Memphis, Tenn., Briarcrest.

Others taking part will be sophomore linebackers and brother Jai, 6-1, 215 and Jalen Jones, 5-10, 195 of South Oakcliff High School in Dallas along with junior offensive lineman Garrett Hayes, 6-4, 280 and tight end-defensive end Rowdy Godwin, 6-6, 225 of Athen, Texas.

Jai and Jalen's dad is former Hog linebacker J.J. Jones. Jai has offers from Texas A&M, Baylor and others.

Highly recruited junior offensive lineman Omari Thomas, 6-4, 305 of Memphis (Tenn.) Briarcrest will be making an unofficial visit today while outside linebacker Zach Zimos, 6-4, 215, 4.59 of Fort Bend Travis High School in Texas and running back Aaron Young, 5-10, 195, of Coatesville, Pa.,will be starting their official visits today.

Registration begins at 4 today. The camp is expected to end about 9 p.m.

5:11 update

2020 athlete Jayden Garner of Skiatook, Okla is visiting.

Garner is one of the top 2020 prospects in Oklahoma.

http://okpreps.com/2018/04/09/okpreps-2020-rankings/

Approximately 60 kids are working out.

5:21 update

2020 athlete Blayne Toll recorded 4.58 and 4.55 on different watches on one shuttle run.

5:33 update

Bentonville West linebacker Kendall Young (6-5, 215) is on hand and had a nearly 11 foot vertical reach.

5:45 update

Manor, Texas defensively Princely Umanmielen (6-4, 248) is a 2020 kid that has caught the coaches’ eyes. He has offers already from Tulsa and UTEP. He ran a 4.61 in the 40.

5:50 update

The Jai and Jalen Jones brothers are not here. They will be here next Saturday.

2020 linebacker-tight end Bryant Burns of Ozark ran a 4.39 shuttle.

6:09 update

2019 LB Darin Davenport of Ft. Smith Southside is here.

7:39 update

2020 O-lineman Omari Thomas looks really, really good. He's getting a lot of attention from the staff. He was at midfield talking with Chad Morris a few minutes ago.

2020 TE Blayne Toll of Hazen and 2021 TE Erin Outley of LR Parkview are looking good in 1-on-1's. They're catching most the passes thrown to them. Some of the misses were bad throws by the QBs.

2020 LB Bryant Burns of Ozark had 2 interceptions during 1-on-1's.

All three would be some of my contenders for camp MVP.

8:54 update

DE Kendall Young of Bentonville West had an outstanding camp and really helped his stock. Big showing by Kendall.

10:07 update

2020 offensive lineman Garrett Hayes, 6-4, 280 of Athen, Texas showed the ability to be a dominating run blocker and will be a guy Arkansas takes a hard look at going forward.

2019 athlete Ryan Johnson, 6-6, 205 of Prescott is an intriguing prospect that worked out at safety and linebacker. He reports an offer from Purdue as a linebacker and interest from Kentucky, Louisiana Tech and Memphis.

He played safety as a junior and will play quarterback as a senior. Arkansas plans to watch him this season.