Sam Pittman reveals three season-ending injuries for Arkansas

A year after suffering a considerable number of injuries that really took a toll on the team, Arkansas has started fall camp with a handful of season-ending injuries yet again.

Coach Sam Pittman revealed on Tuesday that three players are likely to miss the 2024 campaign.

“There’s three guys here: Justin Logan has the shoulder, Jaden Allen‘s got a knee cartilage repair and Zuri Madison had his ACL,” Pittman said. “So those guys probably will not play this year.”

All three players are freshmen at Arkansas.

Logan was the highest-rated of the bunch, a three-star prospect who was rated as the No. 541 overall player in the nation in the 2024 recruiting class. A linebacker, he could have helped round out the depth chart on defense.

Allen is a cornerback, having checked in as the No. 786 overall recruit in the nation, a three-star prospect.

Finally, Madison was ranked a few spots below Allen in the 2024 class, checking in at No. 819 overall as a three-star recruit.

The losses will sting, but they aren’t necessarily coming from surefire contributors on the field this fall. That’s the silver lining for the Razorbacks, if there is one.

Pittman rounded out the Arkansas injury report with one other note.

“Other than that JuJu Pope got a hamstring that’ll probably limit him for the first week, week and a half,” the head coach said. “And I think that’s about it.”

The Razorbacks will need to play well in 2024 for Pittman to keep his job, with most analysts putting him firmly on the hot seat headed into the year. Pittman is heading into his fifth season in charge.

After winning nine games in his second year in charge, Arkansas’ win total has dipped progressively to seven games and then four games. That will have to change this fall if Pittman hopes to stick around.

To that end, the Razorbacks will be hoping to avoid any more season-ending injuries.