FAYETTEVILLE - Arkansas Coach Chad Morris is in Little Rock for a recruiting event, but he took a call on the stage from Valencia (Calif.) College of the Canyons 3-star defensive end Dorian Gerald on Thursday night.

Dorian Gerald will announce his decision on Friday.

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Gerald is set to make his decision on Friday. He's choosing between Arkansas, Florida, Texas A&M and Louisville. When the speculation started the call was from Gerald he had some fun with it on Twitter.

Morris can't comment on specific recruits so obviously he couldn't say if the call was from Gerald or what was said. He visited Arkansas on Jan. 31-Feb. 2. He went to Florida following his Arkansas visit. Gerald visited Texas A&M on Jan. 19 and was at Louisville on Dec. 9.

Arkansas is transitioning to the 4-3 defense this fall after switching to the 3-4 last season. One of the needs for Arkansas' defense is a speed rusher off the edge. That is something Gerald commented on that was stressed to him during his visit to Fayetteville.

"Transitioning from a 3-4 to the 4-3, they don't have many edge rushers," Gerald said. "I watched them practice and everything, and you can tell it needs to be a transition. 3-4 typically is bigger guys, 4-3 is more lean, faster guys. So, yeah, that's what their pitch has been, me coming in being the guy that they need. The transition is going to be huge."

Morris noted on Wednesday during his press conference the need for a rush end.

"And going from a 3-down to a 4-down front we’ve got to have a great need for that true rush end coming off the edge," Morris said. "So you’ll see some guys on the roster now that are going to have to change position and maybe move down to become that rush end to get us what we want."

In two years at College of the Canyons, Gerald had 96 tackles, 43 for loss, 22 sacks, five pass breakups, six forced fumbles and two recovered ones. Gerald has 26 offers.

The Razorbacks will find out at 5 p.m. CT on Friday if they have a key addition to help at defensive end.

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