Matt Landers brings something different at wideout for Arkansas

If you haven’t been paying attention to Arkansas’ fall camp, you’d be forgiven for not knowing who Matt Landers is.

The former wide receiver at Georgia then Toledo didn’t arrive to the Razorbacks program with the same amount of exaltation as fellow transfer Jadon Haselwood did when he announced in the spring he was coming from Oklahoma.

But if you have been paying attention to the first several days of Arkansas football practices, Landers should be on your radar. He’s certainly on that for his defensive teammates.

“Speed, speed. He can run and he can catch. So the deep ball, the 50-50 ball, yeah, I like Matt,” Arkansas cornerback Malik Chavis said.

The deep ball is a specialty. Landers caught just 20 passes at Toledo last year, fourth on the team. But they went for 514 yards, which was only 29 yards off the team leader, who, by the way, made his yardage off 38 catches.

At 6-foot-5 and not even 200 pounds, Landers is a matchup nightmare. Small corners have difficulty because of the height. Tall ones likely can’t match his speed. If camp continues to progress the way it has so far, expect Landers to crack his way into the Arkansas rotation sooner rather than later on the outside.