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FAYETTEVILLE — The latest up-and-down recruiting cycle for Arkansas football continued Saturday with a pair of top recruits from inside the state committing elsewhere and spurning the Razorbacks.

Omarion Robinson and Monterrio Elston of Little Rock’s Parkview Magnet High School are headed west. Robinson, the No. 2 recruit in Arkansas and the No. 26 safety in the country according to the 247sports composite, committed to SEC rival Oklahoma. Elston announced his pledge for Kansas State.

Both players went public with their commitments at a ceremony inside Parkview Magnet.

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Robinson is a significant loss, with the top-three players from Arkansas all committed to other schools. The state’s top recruit, offensive tackle Carius Curne, committed to LSU on June 20, while four-star safety Marcus Wimberly is slated to play for Oklahoma.

Elston is another top-10 prospect out of Arkansas and is the 96th-ranked running back in the country.

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Two local players spurning the Hogs is a disappointment for head coach Sam Pittman, but the Razorbacks logged their biggest win of the recruiting cycle last week with the commitment of four-star linebacker Tavion Wallace. The Georgia native shocked recruiting experts by picking the Hogs over Florida State and Florida.

The Razorbacks 2025 class ranks 28th in the country and 12th in the SEC. There are just three in-state commits currently in the class with quarterback Grayson Wilson, athlete Quinten Murphy and wide receiver Antonio Jordan.



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Wally Hall is assistant managing sports editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. A graduate of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock after an honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force, he is a member and past president of the Football Writers Association of America, member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, past president and current executive committee and board member of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, and voter for the Heisman Trophy. He has been awarded Arkansas Sportswriter of the Year 10 times and has been inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and Arkansas Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.

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