If you watched season three of "Last Chance U", you couldn’t have missed Rakeem Boyd.

He’s the 6-foot, 200-pound running back that Independence Community College head coach Jason Brown consistently called an NFL talent. He’s also the back that rushed for 1,207 yards and 14 touchdowns over the Pirates’ last eight games, averaging 6.9 yards per carry during that stretch.

Boyd is arguably the best player in "Last Chance U" history. Now the Houston native is at a new school – Arkansas.

The Razorbacks’ first-year head coach Chad Morris tapped into his Texas roots to ink Boyd, seeing Boyd as a perfect fit for what should be a deep backfield.

“I think they saw a back with tremendous explosion,” said HawgSports.com publisher Trey Biddy. “The best teams Chad Morris has been a part of has used three to four running backs, and Boyd adds to what they believe is a good core group.”

Arkansas is losing leading rusher David Williams (656 yards, 8 TDs) to graduation, but it brings back a trio of rushers from a year ago who flashed. Junior T.J. Hammonds only toted the ball 32 times, but he had explosive speed averaging 8.2 yards per carry. Sophomore Chase Hayden flashed brightly early in the year with 326 yards and four touchdowns at 5.3 yards per carry before suffering a season-ending leg injury.

It’s junior Devwah Whaley, though, who’s expected to be the Razorbacks’ feature back. The third-ranked running back in the 2016 class per the 247Sports Composite, Whaley rushed for 559 yards and seven touchdowns last season. If Boyd hopes to earn the starting job, he’ll have to take it away from his fellow Texan.

And Whaley put in work this offseason to transform his body.

“Whaley has dropped a good bit of weight and has his body fat percentage down about five points down to 11 percent,” Biddy said. “He is now at 209 pounds after playing near 220 last year.”

Boyd is used to dealing with a crowded running back room. He did so at Independence, where he battled with former Michigan signee Kingston Davis and Jamal Scott, who earned the starting job early in the year before Boyd took it away with a mid-season explosion.

“I think Boyd has a chance to emerge as the starter, but it could be a while,” Biddy said. “He got off to a slow start with Independence, and he was a late enrollee at Arkansas. Once he gets comfortable, I could see him being a go-to guy, but there is talent at running back already on campus.”

Boyd transferred to Independence by way of Texas A&M. A three-star back in the 2016 class, Boyd rushed for a combined 3,915 yards and 48 touchdowns as an upperclassman at Stratford High School. He flashed at Texas A&M during his redshirt freshman year but was forced to transfer due to academic issues.

The Razorbacks will host the Aggies on Sept. 29.