By Tom Murphy (Contact)
FAYETTEVILLE — Safeties don’t turn into linebackers overnight. Jerry Franklin was a hotly recruited skill guy/safety out of Marion when he showed up on the Arkansas campus last summer, and his conversion to a linebacker has been a methodical, if not sometimes bumpy, process.
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Sports, Pages 25, 27 on 08/20/2008