Arkansas’ offensive line may not have gotten nearly enough credit in 2025, but the numbers tell the story. Even in a 2-10 season, the Razorbacks still produced the SEC’s second-best rushing attack and gave the program its first 1,000-yard rusher in four years.
The bigger question now is what comes next in 2026 under new head coach Ryan Silverfield.
Silverfield brings an offensive line background of his own, and he’s putting a heavy emphasis on the group by staffing two line coaches in Marcus Johnson and Jeff Myers. Myers also carries the title of run game coordinator, giving Arkansas even more of a built-in focus on the trenches.
Johnson arrives after spending last season as an assistant offensive line coach at Ohio State. Before that, he worked at Purdue and Missouri, where he had also served as assistant head coach and run game coordinator.
Myers comes to Arkansas after three seasons at Memphis and a seven-year run as offensive line coach at Iowa State under Matt Campbell. He also has a little Razorback history of his own: he was a graduate assistant at Toledo in 2015 when the Rockets came to War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock and stunned Arkansas 16-12.
The recent past shows why this matters. Arkansas had a strong offensive line in 2022, but that group fell off sharply after Dalton Wagner, Ricky Stromberg and Luke Jones were gone. Beaux Limmer was not as effective at center as he had been at right guard, and Brady Latham was the only other returnee.
From there, the problems piled up. Neither Patrick Kutas nor Andrew Chamblee was ready - physically or mentally - to handle SEC tackle jobs, and Arkansas paid for it with 47 sacks that season.
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The Razorbacks are not alone in the scramble, with Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss and Kentucky all loading up as well, but the scale of Arkansas move stands out because of what it says about the urgency in Fayetteville. After a rough year and a coaching change, the program has chosen volume and immediate experience over patience, and the real question now is whether that kind of roster overhaul can turn into actual wins once the season starts. [Read more 🡒]