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JJ Shelton impressing with Arkansas football ahead of freshman season

FAYETTEVILLE — It didn’t take long for freshman Jayden “JJ” Shelton’s body of work to impress other defensive backs on the Arkansas football roster.

Namely, senior veteran Larry Worth III.

“The first thing I noticed … ‘Dang, he’s a freshman?’ ” Worth said to reporters April 17. “He’s supposed to be going in the prom in a couple of weeks, you know? That was the biggest thing, just seeing the tremendous growth and how mature he was, coming straight from out of high school.”

“I did go to prom a couple weekends after that, actually,” Shelton said.