Report: Briles a target for Mississippi State

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas offensive coordinator Kendal Briles is reportedly a goal for brand spanking new Mississippi State Coach Zach Arnett to fill the identical place with the Bulldogs.

The curiosity was reported by Steve Robertson of 247Sports.com in Mississippi.

Arnett, the Bulldogs’ defensive coordinator underneath Mike Leach, was promoted to go coach final month after Leach’s surprising passing.

Briles, 40, had 4 completely different offensive coordinator roles in 4 years at Baylor, Houston, Florida Atlantic and Florida State previous to contacting Sam Pittman and securing a spot on his preliminary Arkansas workers in 2020.

He signed an amended three-year contract final 12 months that introduced his annual wage to $1.2 million in 2022, with built-in raises to $1.25 in 2023 and $1.3 million in 2024.

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Briles’ offenses in three years at Arkansas have been balanced and productive, and have the three highest single-season completion percentages in class historical past.

Arkansas put up 6,128 complete yards this season, the second-highest complete in class historical past behind the 6,273 yards in 2010, and simply the third 6,000-yard season for this system. The Razorbacks had 3,077 speeding yards and three,051 passing yards whereas going 7-6 in Briles’ up-tempo Run-Cross Possibility assault.

Sophomore tailback Raheim Sanders rushed for 1,443 yards, the fourth-highest complete in class historical past.

Of their remaining sport, a 55-53 triple-overtime win over Kansas within the Liberty Bowl, the Razorbacks posted 681 complete yards, their highest determine within the Pittman-Briles period and a college postseason report.

The Razorbacks are presently sixteenth within the FBS with 471.4 complete yards per sport, No. 7 with 236.7 speeding yards per sport, sixty fourth in passing (234.7 ypg), 18th in group passing effectivity (156.6) and thirty fifth in scoring (32.5 factors per sport).

Quarterback KJ Jefferson is second within the SEC and eighth nationally with a passer effectivity score of 165.22.

Jefferson and Feleipe Franks, the Razorbacks’ nine-game starter in 2020, maintain the highest three single-season move completion proportion marks.

Franks broke Kevin Scanlon’s 41-year faculty report with 68.5% completions whereas enjoying towards an all-SEC schedule in 2020. Jefferson accomplished 67.3% of his passes as a sophomore and first-year starter in 2021, then exceeded that with 68% completions this season.

In 2021, Arkansas was twenty seventh in complete offense (441.7 ypg), seventh in speeding (227.8), eighty fifth in passing (213.9), tenth in move effectivity (159.6) and forty eighth in scoring (30.9).

In Briles’ first 12 months as offensive coordinator in 2020, the Razorbacks have been 66th in complete offense (391.5), 78th in speeding (151.3), 52nd in passing (240.2), twenty third in move effectivity (154.5) and 86th in scoring (25.7).