HawgBeat – Arkansas lands commitment from Missouri transfer DL Trajan Jeffcoat

Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman and his workers have accomplished it once more within the switch portal, this time including to defensive position coach Deke Adams’ group with a switch dedication from former Missouri defensive lineman Trajan Jeffcoat.

Jeffcoat made his pledge to the Razorbacks public through Twitter on Sunday night.

The Columbia, South Carolina, native can have one 12 months of eligibility remaining. Throughout his redshirt senior season at Missouri in 2022, Jeffcoat began 10 video games and recorded 21 complete tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and one sack.

As a redshirt junior in 2021, he racked up 34 complete tackles, 10 TFLs and three.5 sacks throughout 13 begins. He additionally added a pressured fumble within the season opener towards Central Michigan and recovered a fumble towards South Carolina on Nov. 13, 2021.

Jeffcoat’s finest season got here in 2020, when he was named First Crew All-SEC by the Related Press. That season he had 23 complete tackles, six TFLs, a team-high six sacks and 7 quarterback hurries. He had a career-best 5 tackles towards Arkansas that season.

A former three-star prospect on Rivals, Jeffcoat brings a much-needed increase to the Arkansas defensive position, which misplaced it is sack chief Jordan Domineck to Colorado. It’s unclear if Jeffcoat enrolled in time to have the ability to take part in spring soccer, or if he must wait till after the spring semester is over to affix the group in the summertime.

Beneath is the complete projected scholarship gamers on the defensive position for the Razorbacks in 2023:

~ John Morgan III – tremendous senior

~ Trajan Jeffcoat – tremendous senior

~ Taurean Carter – redshirt senior

~ Marcus Miller – redshirt senior

~ Eric Gregory – redshirt senior

~ Jashaud Stewart – senior

~ Landon Jackson – junior

~ Cameron Ball – redshirt sophomore

~ Nico Davillier – sophomore

~ JJ Hollingsworth – redshirt freshman

~ Quincy Rhodes Jr. – freshman

~ Kaleb James – freshman

~ Ian Geffrard – freshman