RAZORBACKS SEE an increase in practice energy.

FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas Razorbacks put in a few energetic periods of live tackling, their first of training camp, in practice No. 5 on Wednesday on their outside fields.

“Man, there’s nothing like putting the pads back on,” tight end Cheyenne O’Grady said. “You get to go back out and display your physicality and that’s like the best part of football. We didn’t even like break today because everyone had so much energy and everyone was so excited.”

Said linebacker Grant Morgan: “We went into halftime still pumped up. Coach [Chad] Morris cut out halftime because we all still had energy. So he said, ‘Enough of halftime, let’s keep going.’ ”

Morgan said the offense made more plays than the defense during two livetackling periods.

“The defense has got to step up,” he said. “They moved the ball on us a little bit.”

The first day of full-pad work included a raucous “Razorback” drill, which involves one-on-one battles with the rest of the team surrounding the combatants.

“When we get in the pads, the energy always goes up a little bit,” nickel back D’Vone McClure said. “It was fun, and I thought we were flying around a little bit and everybody had that excitement. That’s what you want to see the first day in pads.”

Running back Chase Hayden, who is coming back from a foot injury that knocked him out for the year in week 7, said he was not involved in the live tackling work.

“Coach [Morris] likes to take care of different guys on different days,” Hayden said. “That’s how it was divided up today.”

Hayden said Jared Cornelius caught a touchdown pass in the back of the end zone, and La’Michael Pettway grabbed a scoring pass in the corner during goal-line work.

On the defensive side, end Jamario Bell punched the ball away from an undisclosed ball carrier.

Defensive tackle Armon Watts said he was among the defenders who got in good pops during the heavy hitting.

“A lot of defensive guys, with the stuff coach [John] Chavis is putting in to make a lot of plays for everybody on the field,” Watts said. “I know a lot of guys were excited to put pads on and make some noise. There was a lot of competition, so I think it went good.”

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