{"id":431829,"date":"2024-10-16T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=431829"},"modified":"2024-10-16T12:39:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:39:19","slug":"sam-pittman-delivers-midweek-update-on-qb-taylen-green-ahead-of-week-8-game-vs-lsu","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/arkansas-football\/sam-pittman-delivers-midweek-update-on-qb-taylen-green-ahead-of-week-8-game-vs-lsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Pittman delivers midweek update on QB Taylen Green ahead of Week 8 game vs. LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pittman provided an update Wednesday on the status of quarterback Taylen Green ahead of the Week 8 game against LSU. The Arkansas quarterback&#8217;s status remains up in the air after a bye week in which he has had over a week to recover from a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Taylen is) still not full speed yet, but we certainly think there&#8217;s a possibility that he can get there. We&#8217;ll have to wait and see there. We have two more practices and a walk, but have been encouraged about his progression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The good news for Arkansas is that Green has been practicing and appears to be making progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaylen practiced,\u201d Pittman said on the SEC coach&#8217;s teleconference. \u201cFirst was a walkthrough, which he would be practicing whether he was healthy or not, you know, in that. He\u2019s practiced each day.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sam Pittman on SEC coaches teleconference says Taylen Green is &quot;still not full speed yet, but we certainly think there&#39;s a possibility that he can get there. We&#39;ll have to wait and see there. We have two more practices and a walk, but have been encouraged about his progression.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christina Long (@christinalong00) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christinalong00\/status\/1846577744689135924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Green has been effective for the Razorbacks to this point in the season, currently\u00a0107-for-189 (56.6%) passing for 1,502 yards. He has 5 touchdowns and has picked up 326 yards on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not Green is good to go on Saturday as the Razorbacks prepare to face the Tigers at 7 p.m. ET in Fayetteville. If not, the team is expected to continue rolling with Malachi Singleton at quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pittman provided an update Wednesday on the status of quarterback Taylen Green ahead of the Week 8 game against LSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364585,"featured_media":429234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-431829","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\/431829"}],"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=431829"}],"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=431829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}