Arkansas Attack

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Arkansas Attack
Arkansas Attack.jpg
Founded2022;2 years ago (2022)
Based in Little Rock, Arkansas
Home stadium War Memorial Stadium
Head coach Earnest Wilson
Owner(s)Major League Football, Inc.
(publicly traded company)
League Major League Football
Website www.mlfb.com/arkansas

The Arkansas Attack are a proposed professional American football team based in Little Rock, Arkansas that has never played a game. The team is a member of the Major League Football (MLFB), a public traded professional football league, and plays its home games at War Memorial Stadium.

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The Attack are part of the league "Core Four" teams. [1] They are the first pro football team in Little Rock, Arkansas since the Arkansas Diamonds, which played in the Continental Football League and later in the American Football Association. (In 1992, a team called the Arkansas Miners was set to call the War Memorial home in the proposed Professional Spring Football League, but the circuit folded without playing a game.)

History

On March 18, 2022, Major League Football launched a new website and revealed that there will be only four teams for the first season. [2] On May 6, after some delays and many candidates, MLFB hired their fourth coach for 2022 season Earnest Wilson, [3] which was most recently the head coach at Defiance College. [4] The league would later reveled he will coach the Arkansas Attack. [5]

The Attack started their training camp on July 21. [6] One week later, the team was evicted from its hotel amid unpaid bills and reports of the league shutting down. [7]

Staff

Arkansas Attack staff
Head coaches
Offensive coaches
Defensive coaches

Players

Arkansas Attack roster
Quarterbacks
  • 10Ja'rome Johnson
  •  7Jalen Jones
  •  3Lukas O'Connor

Running backs

  • 48 LaDarius Galloway
  • 55Bruce Jordan-Swilling
  • 79Taylor Martin
  •  2Raymond Taylor
  • 40Matt Tuleja FB

Wide receivers

  • 83Laquvionte Gonzalez
  • 19Aakiel Greer
  • 84Jamari Hester
  •  4Ka'Ronce Higgins
  • 98Marquis Lawson
  • 90Justin Manyweather
  •  5Michael Moss
  • 86Keith Pearson
  • 16Thomas Reid III
  • 15 Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi KR
  • 51Patrick Smith Jr
  •  1Jordus Smith
  • 82Smith, Shavarez
  • 80Darren Wood Jr.

Tight ends

  • 86Bryson Cannon
  • 97David Meza
  • 26Ronquavion Tarver
Offensive linemen
  • 66Louis Chandler OG
  • 73Samuel Devril OT
  • 72Issac Jackson OT
  • 75Cameron Johnson OT
  • 74Chanlder Jones OG
  • 13Lawrence Keys C
  • 56Somadina Okezie-Okeke C
  • 67Jaden Salley OG
  • 77Bruce Trigg OT
  • 62 Dwayne Wallace OG

Defensive linemen

Linebackers
  • 54Kyaire Bynum
  • 52Cecil Cherry
  • 36Jarod Fountain
  • 87Stanley Gee
  • 30Alexis Ramos

Defensive backs

  • 28Isiah Bennett
  • 23Dashawn Benton
  • 25Brandon Brice
  • 43Reginald Cole
  • 31Curtis Collins
  • 34JJ Dallas
  • 27Alvin Davis
  • 32Antwuan Davis
  • 39Malik Davis
  • 32Robert Dickerson III
  • 58Cornelius Sturghill
  • 38Elijah Walker

Special teams

  • 44Erik Lawson LS
  •  9Paul Ortiz K
  •  6Jonathan Ward P
Injured reserve
  • Currently vacant

Practice squad

  • Currently vacant

Inactive

  • Currently vacant

Rookies in italics
Roster updated July 24, 2022
66 Active, 0 Inactive

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