Arkansas Attack
Team logo
Founded2022 (2022)
Based inLittle Rock, Arkansas
Home stadiumWar Memorial Stadium
Head coachEarnest Wilson
Owner(s)Major League Football, Inc.
(publicly traded company)
LeagueMajor League Football
Websitewww.mlfb.com/arkansas

The Arkansas Attack are a professional American football team based in Little Rock, Arkansas. 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.

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
  • Defensive Coordinator – Derrius Bell
  • Defensive Line - Bernard Holsey
  • Linebackers – Mike Fanoga

Players

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

Running backs

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

Wide receivers

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

Tight ends

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

Defensive linemen

  • 97 Michael Badejo DE[8]
  • 68 Chris Biggurs DT
  • 91 Denzel Chukwukelu DT
  • 41 Deshon Cooper DT
  • 81 Armond Lloyd DT
  • 22 Ke'Tyrus Marks DT
  • 85 Jonathan McKinney DE
  • 99 Jamal Milan DT
  • 96 Gabe Richardson DE
  • 50 Nick Williams DT
  • 95 Sha'haun Williams DE
Linebackers
  • 54 Kyaire Bynum
  • 52 Cecil Cherry
  • 36 Jarod Fountain
  • 87 Stanley Gee
  • 30 Alexis Ramos

Defensive backs

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

Special teams

  • 44 Erik Lawson LS
  •  9 Paul Ortiz K
  •  6 Jonathan 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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References

  1. "Major League Football (MLFB) Announces Mobile as Final Host City for Inaugural 2022 Season".
  2. "MLFB Updates Website — Team Names Revealed". March 18, 2022.
  3. Pelletier, Adam (May 6, 2022). "Earnest Wilson named as Fourth Major League Football Coach". Sports Gambling Podcast. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  4. Nissen, Shayne. "DC football: Earnest Wilson steps down as Jackets head coach". The Crescent-News. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  5. "PR: MLFB Announces Little Rock as Host City for Inaugural 2022 Season".
  6. "MLFB Training Camp Report Day One: Players Arriving and Teams Start Meetings". SGPN.
  7. "Major League Football League 'shut down': players, coaches sent home". WKRG News 5. 2022-07-28. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  8. "Michael Badejo on the Precipice of Playing Professional Football".
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