Sam Pittman provides update on Andrew Armstrong health, wide receiver depth

Arkansas might be without a key playmaker as the Razorbacks travel to play at Oklahoma State this weekend, as head coach Sam Pittman shared on the SEC coaches teleconference that wideout Andrew Armstrong’s status is still unclear.

Armstrong has been dealing with an injury through the back half of fall camp. He did not play in the opener for Arkansas, a 70-0 win, and the hope was he might be back in time for this important road game in Stillwater. As of Wednesday, Pittman said he truly wasn’t sure if Armstrong would be good to play or not, only that he was improving by the day.

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“Andrew’s gotten better since last week to Monday to Tuesday,” Pittman said. “So, he’s improving each week. Whether he can go full-speed or not on Saturday — and this is not to hold anything back, we have other good receivers — I just don’t know, at this point. But I will say that he’s looked a lot better this week and even from Monday to Tuesday, expecting him to look better today, as well.”

If Armstrong can’t play, though, Pittman is confident his team has enough talent in the receiving corps to cover for the absence of Armstrong and his downfield playmaking ability.

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Pittman named a number of receivers he thinks can make a splash beyond Armstrong: Tyrone Broden, Isaiah Sategna, Isaac TeSlaa, Jordan Anthony and Khafre Brown, among others. That quintet caught a dozen of the 28 total completions that Arkansas had in the opener, and can seemingly absorb the workload if Armstrong can’t play.

“But, you know, we’re confident in — that we’ve got five, six seven receivers that they have speed, were catching the ball extremely well,” Pittman said. “I like the schematics that Coach [Bobby] Petrino was running there. If we have time, if we can protect, I feel like we’ve got adequate enough receivers that, you know — Broden, obviously is a big target that can run and Sategna’s actually playing extremely well and of course Jordan Anthony can — he’s fast. Then you look at TeSlaa. We’ve got some guys — Brown — we’ve got some guys that, if Andrew’s not able to play, we feel like we can stretch the field and have some success.”