It’s been a tough year for Arkansas football signee JJ Hollingsworth and his family, but it’s ending well and getting through that adversity is going to make this a special Christmas.
Hollingsworth (6-3, 250) was one of 20 prospects who inked their national letter-of-intent with the Razorbacks on Dec. 15 and he did so with his dad and mom Jaye and Amy Johnson, his younger brother E.J. and what seemed like most of the Greenland community looking on with pride.
He is the first student-athlete from Greenland to receive a football scholarship from Arkansas.
“It’s still pretty surreal,” noted Hollingworth, who joined fellow signee and early enrollee Kaden Henley of Shiloh Christian in practicing with the Razorbacks earlier this week.