May 22, 2012

McFadden Wins Doak Walker Award

Hogwired.com: Darren McFadden Wins Doak Walker Award Arkansas tailback Darren McFadden won the Doak Walker Award, an honor bestowed annually to the nation’s top running back, it was announced on ESPN at the 2006 Home Depot College Football Awards show.

McFadden Named Finalist For Heisman Trophy

Hogwired.com: McFadden Named Heisman Finalist Arkansas tailback Darren McFadden was selected as one of three finalists for the 2006 Heisman Memorial Trophy it was announced Wednesday evening on ESPN’s SportsCenter. [...] McFadden is the first player in Arkansas history to be named a finalist for college football’s most prestigious honor. He is also a finalist [...]

McFadden Named Finalist For Doak Walker Award

Hogwired.com: McFadden Named a Finalist for the Doak Walker Award Arkansas tailback Darren McFadden is one of three finalists for the 2006 Doak Walker Award it was announced by The Guaranty Bank SMU Athletic Forum on Tuesday. Michigan’s Mike Hart and West Virginia’s Steve Slaton join McFadden as finalists for the award presented annually to [...]

Practice Reports – 8/26/2005

Hogwired.com: Razorbacks Continue to Keep Concentration The depth chart for the Missouri State game was released on Friday, revealing sophomore Peyton Hillis as the starting tailback, while senior De’Arrius Howard is second. UA is not lacking talent at the position with Felix Jones and Darren McFadden following, respectively. “Peyton Hillis will go out there first, [...]

My Scrimmage Thoughts

Mortensen and Barthel were just okay. The thing that Mortensen appears to bring to the table over Barthel (and maybe all the QBs?) is that he seems to be smart enough to not make mistakes that cause turnovers. If it’s not there, he’ll throw it away or get out of bounds. My guess on Barthel [...]

Practice Reports – 8/10/2005

Robbie Neiswanger writes about the three new freshman running backs: Felix Jones, Darren McFadden and Michael Smith. While watching practice on Tuesday, HogBlogger and I thought Jones looked extremely impressive and Smith was very quick…but potentially a little too small to be a durable SEC back. We didn’t see enough of McFadden to get a [...]