During Week 2 of the 2026 NFL season, 14 of the 17 former Arkansas football players on active NFL rosters got on the field, and five of them started. The biggest performances came from Dre Greenlaw and Hunter Henry, both of whom kept building on strong starts to their seasons.
Greenlaw was all over the field for San Francisco in a 35-13 win over the Miami Dolphins. He finished with eight tackles, which was the second-most by a 49er in the game, and helped push the 49ers to 2-0. After putting up six tackles in San Francisco’s 27-7 Week 1 win over the Los Angeles Rams, Greenlaw now has 14 tackles on 121 snaps through the first two games of the season.
Henry also made his second start in as many weeks for New England, and this time the Patriots got into the win column. In a 20-3 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, he caught six passes for 66 yards. That followed a Week 1 line of three catches for 40 yards against the Seattle Seahawks, giving him nine catches for 106 yards on the year while playing 158 snaps.
Elsewhere, several former Razorbacks logged notable roles in Week 2 even if they didn’t all make the same kind of splash. Jake Bates went 1-for-1 on field goals and hit all four extra points in Detroit’s 41-31 loss to the Bills, while Cam Little continued his work for Jacksonville by making two of three field-goal attempts and all one of his extra points in a 20-13 loss to the Broncos. Through two games, Little has gone 4-for-5 on field goals and 5-for-5 on extra points.
Montaric Brown added four tackles for Jacksonville in that Broncos game, and now has nine tackles on the season after starting one of his two games. Landon Jackson posted two tackles for Buffalo in its win over Detroit, while Isaac TeSlaa caught two passes for 26 yards for Detroit against the Bills. Mike Washington Jr. gave Las Vegas a productive run in a 26-14 win over the Chargers, finishing with 10 carries for 48 yards through two weeks.
A few former Hogs were also part of the rotation in smaller roles. Treylon Burks played 21 snaps in Washington’s 37-20 loss to Dallas.
Fernando Carmona started for Tennessee and played 50 snaps in a 24-20 loss. Kamren Curl started for the Rams and made four tackles in a 27-7 loss to San Francisco.
Feleipe Franks had one tackle in limited action for Carolina, and Hjalte Frohodlt started again for Detroit, logging 75 snaps in a 31-7 loss to Seattle.
There were also players who didn’t suit up. Taylen Green was inactive for Cleveland’s 23-19 win over Tampa Bay, and John Ridgeway III did not play in New Orleans’ 24-17 win over Baltimore. Beaux Limmer also did not play for the Rams in their loss to the 49ers, while Julian Neal saw two snaps for Seattle in its win over Arizona.
All active #ProHogs are set to be back in action next week, with New England and Hunter Henry meeting Jacksonville - and Montaric Brown and Cam Little - on Sunday, Sept. 27 at Noon.
In Other News...
Arkansas Finally Admitted Its NIL Delay And Fans Know The Stakes
Hunter Yuracheks acknowledgment that Arkansas was slow to catch up to the NIL era was a notable admission in itself, especially for a program trying to climb back into the SEC race. The delayed hire of a football general manager only sharpened the point, because in todays college game the teams that move early on staffing and roster-building usually get the first crack at better talent and more stability. Arkansas has spent enough time trying to make up ground that the issue is no longer abstract.
Yurachek and Ryan Silverfield have spent time talking through how to improve the programs resources and competitiveness, which gives this a longer runway than one offseason fix. The problem is that Arkansas still sits at the bottom of the SEC in roster spending, and in this league that is a hard place to live if the goal is to keep pace with the top half of the conference. Silverfield has voiced confidence in the roster he has now, but the bigger question is how quickly the rest of the program can turn that confidence into a stronger foundation. [Read more 🡒]
Arkansas Fans Are Judging Ryan Silverfield Way Too Soon
Arkansas football has been through enough coaching swings to know how quickly a new name can become a flashpoint, and Ryan Silverfield is already being pulled into that cycle. The conversation around him has been shaped by comparisons with Bobby Petrino, whose early run in Fayetteville came with its own growing pains before the wins arrived, and by the larger reality that rebuilding this program is never a clean, straight line. For fans hungry for a turnaround, every rumor and every coaching link tends to get magnified.
Silverfields name has also been dragged through speculation about his situation at Memphis, even as reporting pointed away from the idea that his firing was likely. That kind of noise is familiar in college football, especially when a program like Arkansas is searching for stability, but it also shows how thin the margin is between interest and assumption. The bigger question is not whether fans are excited or skeptical. It is whether they are ready to let the search and the rebuild play out with a little more patience. [Read more 🡒]
Arkansas Still Has Two Big Problems Heading Into Tulsa
With Tulsa up next Saturday at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Arkansas is still spending plenty of time on the basics, and Christian Harrison and Malachi Breland both pointed to the same theme: the Razorbacks need cleaner football in all three phases. Offense, defense and special teams have each had issues to sort through, and the emphasis this week has been on tightening things up before conference play keeps getting any less forgiving.
One of the bigger defensive concerns is Tulsa quarterback Dexter Williams II, who gives the Golden Hurricane a reason to test Arkansas if the lane opens up. The Razorbacks also know the turnover battle can swing a game quickly, which makes ball security and forcing takeaways part of the conversation heading into a matchup that will be carried on SEC Network+ and the Razorback Sports Network. [Read more 🡒]