Let's Not Put Taylen Green in Lineup Yet

  • 7 months ago
Andy Hodges says Boise State quarterback doesn't really have a lot of Power 5 experience jumping into a league where that could be a really big deal going forward.
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00:00 Maybe one of the biggest questions for Arkansas headed into spring practice for the 2024 season
00:06 is what are they going to do at quarterback? You're not going to win a championship in this
00:11 league if you don't have a really good one, likely a great one. He's also got to have some good
00:17 people around him, but if you don't have the trigger man, nothing else is going to work.
00:21 Arkansas has gotten kind of comfortable the last five years. Well, four of them. The first year
00:27 KJ Jefferson was here was kind of a chaotic year with, I believe, eight or nine different guys
00:33 playing quarterback. They took care of that, fired the coach Chad Morris, got rid of him,
00:39 brought in Sam Pittman. He knew immediately KJ Jefferson wasn't ready for the SEC,
00:44 brought in Felipe Franks to get him through a year. Then KJ took over and it was his team for
00:51 three years. Well, the results were kind of lukewarm. 2021 was a good year. Still had some
00:57 of the really good players that Morris had recruited. He couldn't manage them once he got
01:03 them here, but he could recruit. Now they come to the end of a four and eight season, or the
01:09 season after a four and eight season. They are getting ready for another year and a lot of hopes
01:16 are being put in transfer quarterback Taylon Green from Boise State. Here's the problem.
01:21 He hasn't played much at a power five level. In fact, about 28 passes, I believe.
01:30 Kent Smith at All Hogs has a great story up on allhogs.com and you need to go check that out.
01:38 He goes into it, but he makes some good points. You might want to pump the brakes
01:45 on putting Taylon Green in the hall of fame, because let's see what he can do before we try
01:51 to put him anywhere. He may not even be the starter. Don't forget about Jacoby Criswell.
01:58 And there's some freshman kid coming in out of Alabama and Malachi Singleton's still on the
02:05 roster too. Hey, we don't even know that Green is going to be the starting quarterback. He probably
02:13 will be, but we don't know that right now. Go check out Kent's story at allhogs.com.
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