Should Oklahoma be worried about a current 2026 commit?

Oklahoma coach Brent Venables during a NCAA football game between the Tennessee Volunteers and Oklahoma Sooners at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn., on November 1, 2025.

Behind new head coach Ryan Silverfield, Arkansas is on an in-state heater at the tail end of the 2026 cycle. In the span of eight hours, the Razorbacks have added commitments from three-star LB Jakore Smith, four-star DL Danny Beale and four-star DL Anthony Kennedy. They've also flipped blue-chip RB T.J. Hodges from Missouri. All four of the aforementioned prospects hail from the Natural State, and it's led many to wonder whether Arkansas could make some similar eleventh-hour noise with four-star Bryant (Ark.) EDGE and Oklahoma commit Matthew Nelson.