{"id":430963,"date":"2024-10-09T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=430963"},"modified":"2024-10-09T12:18:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T16:18:57","slug":"sam-pittman-gives-injury-update-on-taylen-green-prognosis-for-lsu-game","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/arkansas-football\/sam-pittman-gives-injury-update-on-taylen-green-prognosis-for-lsu-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Pittman gives injury update on Taylen Green, prognosis for LSU game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pittman provided a status update on injured Arkansas Razorbacks quarterback Taylen Green this week ahead of the team&#8217;s matchup against LSU, giving a little reason for optimism.<\/p>\n<p>But there is also still some uncertainty surrounding Green&#8217;s return from a lower-body injury he suffered against the No. 4 Tennessee Volunteers after taking a big hit from Vols defender Omarr Norman-Lott early in the fourth quarter of Arkansas&#8217; 19-14 victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re hoping he&#8217;ll be ready for LSU,&#8221; Pittman said Wednesday on The Chuck &amp; Bo Show. &#8220;We&#8217;re also hoping that he&#8217;ll be ready by next week to practice. Those are still up in the air just a little bit. But we feel confident that we can have him back. It&#8217;s just that we&#8217;re not positive that will happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019re hoping he\u2019ll be ready for LSU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas HC Sam Pittman gave us an update on QB Taylen Green\u2019s status. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ftpNkw79A6\">pic.twitter.com\/ftpNkw79A6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Chuck &amp; Bo Show (@chuckandboshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chuckandboshow\/status\/1844033811325325623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pittman also spoke to the importance of having his starter back in the fold, even though Malachi Singleton did a fine job taking the reins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we certainly need him. Malachi (Singleton) did a wonderful job, but, you know, Taylen (Green&#8217;s) our number one quarterback for a reason and Malachi (Singleton) certainly earned his respect that he got leading that last drive down there to score. That was big time and so we&#8217;ve got two good quarterbacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who takes the snaps when Arkansas faces No. 13 LSU will be something to keep an eye on Kickoff between the two teams is set for 6 p.m. CT in Fayetteville on Oct. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pittman provided a status update on injured Arkansas Razorbacks quarterback Taylen Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364585,"featured_media":429234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[5103,6675],"class_list":["post-430963","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-taylen-green","article_types-news","teams-arkansas-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/430963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}