The Arkansas Razorbacks are under new management this season, and could be within months of the best recruiting class in recent history for the program. For a class that could have room for as many as 29 players, the Razorbacks have plenty of momentum under coach Chad Morris.

The Razorbacks sit at No. 16 overall in the 247Sports Composite rankings, which is good for the seventh-best slot in the SEC. Arkansas finished last in the SEC in 2018, 10th in 2017 and ninth in 2016.

What is the secret?

“They have a narrative of a ‘new Arkansas,’” said HawgSports.com publisher Trey Biddy on the 247Sports Recruiting Podcast. “Come in. Play early. Arkansas has always been a place that’s been a little bit difficult to recruit to compared to their SEC brethren just because it’s a little more remote than those other schools. It’s about 5.5 hours away from Dallas, which is really their recruiting hotbed. That 250-mile radius for Arkansas is a little bit slimmer pickings than most other SEC schools, so they have to do a great job in Louisiana, in Texas. They haven’t really done that in the past.”

Arkansas recently spiked with a No. 11 verbal commitment from four-star New Orleans cornerback Devin Bush. Bush became the fourth Top247 commitment in the 2019 class.

“(He is) a big cornerback that can play anywhere from corner to nickel to safety,” Biddy said. “I think (he is) a guy that really compliments what they want to do back there. Talking with Gabe Brooks, our regional recruiting guy, he feels that he’s all upside. He’s got some areas where he can improve a little bit fundamentally. He feels like he’s all upside, about 6-foot, 190 pounds, big cornerback to go with what they already have right now.”

Bush joins Hudson Henry, Treylon Burks and Trey Knox as Top247 players in the 2019 class. For Morris in his first year as head coach, it is about in-person impressions.

“If you can get prospects up to Fayetteville and they see what the facilities are, any preconceived notions that they have about Arkansas are wiped away,” Biddy said. “You have a lot better chance at getting them on campus, to commit. That’s something that Chad Morris have done a great job at. They’ve gotten loads of recruits. In February, they had the best visit weekend that I think I’ve ever seen at Arkansas in terms of the number of high-profile players that came.”

Perhaps the next question is what happens for the Razorbacks at quarterback. Will Clemson transfer Kelly Bryant join the class? As a grad transfer, he would not count in the rankings, but it would be a big splash for the Razorbacks.

Arkansas is one of six schools in the race with a decision coming in December. A relationship with Morris is a factor, as he discussed in a recent interview with 247Sports.

“He recruited me,” Bryant said. “He was my main guy. It’s important — the relationship is already there so it’s established. Right after I made the decision (to leave Clemson) he was one of the first people, one of the first coaches to reach out. It’s like we didn’t skip a beat. Right there, the relationship seemed like it started right back again. And just having that relationship and knowing what he looks for in a quarterback is big."