{"id":431643,"date":"2024-10-14T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=431643"},"modified":"2024-10-14T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T20:00:38","slug":"sam-pittman-gives-update-on-taylen-green-ahead-of-lsu-game","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/arkansas-football\/sam-pittman-gives-update-on-taylen-green-ahead-of-lsu-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Pittman gives update on Taylen Green ahead of LSU game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pittman met with reporters in Fayetteville on Monday ahead of Arkansas-LSU in Week 8.<\/p>\n<p>Pittman covered several topics, including the health of starting quarterback Taylen Green.<\/p>\n<p>Green exited Arkansas&#8217; Week 6 win over Tennessee with an injury and his status is somewhat up in the air headed into this week&#8217;s battle with the Tigers. However, Sam Pittman expressed some confidence that Green will be able to suit up on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re hopeful that he&#8217;ll be ready to go,&#8221; Pittman said. &#8220;I feel like he will. But we&#8217;ll have to wait and see a little bit more. I&#8217;ll probably know a little bit more Wednesday &#8230; Tuesday, Wednesday. But we&#8217;re hoping he&#8217;ll be ready to play and we think he&#8217;ll be able to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s video of Pittman&#8217;s comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;We&#8217;re hoping [Taylen] is ready to play, and we think he&#8217;ll be able to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coach Pittman met with the media to preview Saturday&#8217;s matchup against LSU. Watch the full press conference \u2b07\ufe0f. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WPS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WPS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IsKvPW0xkL\">https:\/\/t.co\/IsKvPW0xkL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IYKBI4IBO9\">pic.twitter.com\/IYKBI4IBO9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pig Trail Nation (@PigTrailNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PigTrailNation\/status\/1845912503362244709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If Green can&#8217;t go, Arkansas would turn to Malachi Singleton. He relieved Green against Tennessee and performed well, completing 2-of-3 passes for 31 yards. Singleton also scored the game-winning touchdown with 1:17 to go.<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff from Fayetteville is set for 7 p.m. ET on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Calling all Louisiana residents! Interested in betting on the game this weekend? Here&#8217;s a full breakdown of all the best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/sports-betting\/louisiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisiana betting apps<\/a> on the market in 2024!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pittman shared his thoughts on how Taylen Green is progressing after suffering an injury vs. Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356456,"featured_media":426571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-431643","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-arkansas-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/431643"}],"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\/356456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}