Arkansas Football: Top 3 prospects for 2021 NFL Draft

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BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA – NOVEMBER 23: Clyde Edwards-Helaire #22 of the LSU Tigers avoids a tackle by Bumper Pool #10 of the Arkansas Razorbacks at Tiger Stadium on November 23, 2019 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) /

This one might be a bit of a reach because Arkansas doesn’t have a ton of draft eligible NFL talent on the roster heading into the 2020 season, but Sam Pittman will change that.

Bumper Pool is heading into his junior season and he’s coming off a productive year in which he finished with 94 total tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss and 0.5 sacks. He saw his production triple from his freshman season and he played in 12 games compared to just six in 2018. He looks like a future NFL linebacker, but he may need all four years to get there.

If he does have a breakout season, tops 100 total tackles and touches on 10 tackles for loss and a few sacks, we could see him as a mid-round pick. I’m not talking Day 1 or Day 2, though, I’m thinking more like fifth round at the earliest. He just hasn’t had a ton of exposure yet and playing on a two-win team with a mediocre defense last year didn’t help.

However, he did see guys like Kamren Curl and McTelvin Agim get drafted, so there’s hope for him, especially playing in a new scheme where he should be the leader of the defense.

There’s always the chance that he could leave early and go undrafted like his linebacker counterpart De’Jon Harris this year. Harris led the team in tackles with 101 in 2019 but signed with the Patriots shortly after the draft.

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