As Arkansas coach Sam Pittman and his staff begin their end of the year reviews and interviews with players, nobody is really talking much about keeping kicker Cam Little around. Let's hope it's not assumed.
We haven't opened the transfer portal yet (that happens Friday) but players are already indicating they are jumping into the portal, giving up whatever eligibility they have left. None have been particularly headliners except they entered the portal.
In all this, though, nobody is talking about the kicker. As usually happens, when you're good you get taken for granted. Little's main thing is consistency. Sure, he's had some misses because it happens to every kicker. Most people tend to forget 10 other people have to do their job and two others handle the ball before the kicker does his and sometimes we have no idea what went wrong on misses.
As much as he seems to enjoy his situation here, none of us know what's going on behind the scenes. This is a new world and it's about money now and the going rate for players with Little's charisma and public relations strong points can be valuable a lot of places.
Sam Pittman knows it. If Little does come back it will be because of two things and the portal might not be the biggest. He's eligible for the NFL Draft and on Mel Kiper's ESPN Draft Board for 2024 he is the No. 2 specialist on the board. Redshirt freshman Blake Ford is behind him and I had to find a roster to look it up.
Let the questions behind. It's Pittman's problem to solve and nobody wants to hear a lot about anything except the final scores next year and the Razorbacks need to finish with more W's than they had this year.
One of the biggest question marks nobody is talking about is the position a lot of folks tend to take for granted.
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