{"id":433385,"date":"2024-10-28T13:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=433385"},"modified":"2024-10-28T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:25:38","slug":"sam-pittman-updates-status-of-star-rb-jaquinden-jackson","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/arkansas-football\/sam-pittman-updates-status-of-star-rb-jaquinden-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Pittman updates status of star RB Ja&#8217;Quinden Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pittman met with reporters Monday afternoon following the Razorbacks&#8217; blowout win over Mississippi State last Saturday. During his availability the Arkansas head coach updated the status of star running back Ja&#8217;Quinden Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah transfer has been one of the best running backs in the SEC this season, sitting at 592 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns through 7 games. He suffered a right ankle injury across the past 2 weeks and had been dealing with a shoulder injury earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, Jackson is still considered doubtful for Saturday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sam Pittman says Arkansas RB Ja&#8217;Quinden Jackson will likely be &#8220;doubtful&#8221; for Saturday&#8217;s game against Ole Miss. Corner Jaylon Braxton also supposed to be doubtful again. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WPS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WPS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mason Choate (@ChoateMason) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChoateMason\/status\/1850946669602627789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Razorbacks did well without Jackson in the backfield against a bad Mississippi State defense, but the competition gets much tougher this Saturday. Arkansas will have its hands full against a solid Ole Miss defensive unit that ranks first in the SEC in rush yards allowed per game (76.6).<\/p>\n<p>The Razorbacks are likely to once again turn to freshman back Braylen Russell, who rushed for 175 yards in 16 carries last weekend. The freshman also ran well against Tennessee&#8217;s stout defensive line, totaling 8 carries for 62 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Razorbacks and Rebels face off at Noon eastern on ESPN this coming Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pittman updated Ja&#8217;Quinden Jackson&#8217;s status Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364280,"featured_media":426551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-433385","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\/433385"}],"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\/364280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}