Sam Pittman reveals multiple Arkansas injuries following scrimmage

The Arkansas Razorbacks are coming off their first scrimmage of Fall Camp. It was a scrimmage that head coach Sam Pittman decided to hold several players out of.

Following that scrimmage, Pittman met with the media. There, he revealed multiple Arkansas injuries that the team is dealing with ahead of the regular season.

“I was anticipating this,” Sam Pittman said. “Pat Kutas has got a back. So, we’re resting it. We’ve rested it for a few days. We feel like we’ll get him back. I’m not positive. It may be another week, it may be another week and a half. But we feel good we’re going to get him back.”

Beyond that, it ultimately ended up being a long line of players dealing with some kind of injury. That included several players who are dealing with concussions.

“Khafre Brown, we held him today. That was us. He’s had some knee surgeries and things. We’ve been holding him some in practice as well. So, that was a knee deal. Luke Brown is gonna have to have a trim on his cartilage that he had worked on before. So, that’ll be — that was two days ago. Jon Hill, Anton Juncaj, and Marquise Robinson are out with concussions and they’ve all been out different times. Depending on when they get back, I think Anton was the first one so I anticipate him being back this coming week. Marquise would be the next one. Then Luke’s was just recent and Jon Hill’s was just recent.”

Arkansas has a few more weeks before the Razorbacks open the 2024 regular season with a game against Arkansas Pine-Bluff on August 29th that Pittman will want the team to find a way to be healthy for.

“Rashod Dubinion didn’t play because of a knee, swelling on his knee. Ja’Quinden Jackson has a mild ankle sprain. Tyrone Broden, we didn’t play him today from turf toe. I would imagine he’ll be — some of these guys will be back tomorrow but we just held him today. Dylan Hasz has a back and he’ll probably be back tomorrow as well. Jaheim Singletary has a hamstring and Vito [Calvaruso] has got a pulled groin muscle and, obviously, we know he’s a kicker so we held him… Did I miss [Andrew] Armstrong? Armstrong’s got a slight hamstring too,” Pittman said.

“The longest one that I think is going to be out is Luke Brown because he’s going to have to be out a couple of weeks. But the rest of these guys will be back.”

The list that Sam Pittman shared was a long one. However, it was also important that he took the time to note that none of these are long-term injuries. This list of players being held out was much more precautionary.

“I think if we forced half of that group to play today, I think they could have… I think they could have played if we pushed them… But we didn’t play anybody today, we’re trying to get better today and we felt like as a staff that it would be better to hold these kids and get them back healthy because we still have another scrimmage and some other live reps going on,” Pittman said. “So, we decided to do that.”