Kyeaure Magloire spent years chasing the chance to play in the SEC, and Arkansas came through just before he was set to make another move.
The defensive back from Minneola, Fla., had already logged four years across two FCS stops at Eastern Kentucky and West Georgia before entering the transfer portal. On Thursday, he said Arkansas reached out only a couple of days before he planned to commit elsewhere.
"I was in the middle of my recruiting process with different schools around the country," Magloire said Thursday. "Was looking around a lot of places, really interested.
Arkansas hit me probably two days before I was going to commit somewhere else. We're talking back and forth, and [since I was a kid] I always wanted to play in the SEC.
"This was the first SEC school to take a chance on me, and I really bought into the vision Coach Silverfield projected and what the safety coaches were talking about as far as the schematics on defense. I got really fired up about it. Talked to my family, my peers, prayed about it a lot and decided it was the decision for me."
Magloire, listed at 6-3 and 200 pounds, also visited West Virginia and Colorado State before landing at Arkansas. Last season at West Georgia, he played in 11 games and finished with 42 tackles, two interceptions, a forced fumble and three pass breakups.
That production has already carried over in Fayetteville. Magloire has worked with Arkansas’ first team multiple times during fall camp and looks positioned to play meaningful snaps this season.
"It's been super fun," Magloire said. "This is my last year of college football, obviously.
I wanted to make the most out of it, put myself in the best position, but also have a lot of fun. We're in a room with super competitive guys, guys that are fired up about football through and through.
That's built me to the best version of myself as a player thus far, and that's all I could ask for and the opportunity they've given me."
He said the biggest immediate benefit of being in the program has come in the training room.
"The part of this program I've benefitted most from is the training room," Magloire said. "Not in terms of injuries, but getting ahead of things.
We have an amazing staff in there. They've helped me not just stay on the field, but improve myself as a player in terms of my health, my flexibility, whatever nicks and bruises I may be feeling.
It's super helpful to have those resources."
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