FAYETTEVILLE -- When Brooks Ellis made the short drive from his home here to the University of Arkansas to start his life as a college student and Razorback, he looked like a very likely candidate to redshirt.
Ellis was a 6-2, 215-pound linebacker. That's very light for that position in the SEC.
It didn't take many days into fall camp for it to become obvious Ellis played much bigger.
Hitting was never a problem for him. He could have been nicknamed "Collision" because they always seemed to happen when he was around.
It was no secret that Bret Bielema had inherited a team that had gone through a huge transition from ultra-disciplinarian Bobby Petrino to nice-guy John L.