HERO Sports is counting down the days until the kickoff of the 2018 college football season on Saturday, Aug. 25, by featuring the best player in the FBS at each jersey number, from 99-1. Each day, from May 18 through Aug. 24, we'll publish one article showcasing the best player whose jersey number matches the number of days remaining.
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No. 51 Hjalte Froholdt
Arkansas – G
Hjalte Froholdt — pronounced Yell-duh Fro-holt — was pretty good at American football in his home country of Denmark but when he first played on American soil as a sophomore at Warren G. Harding High School in Warren, Ohio, things went poorly for the tight end and defensive end.
“The game was much faster and it took a lot of time to really get into it,” Froholdt recalled in 2015. “The first day of practice I got put on my butt 20 times. I thought I did really badly, but I thought that I might as well get back up and do it again to the best of my ability. And then I just kept going, and going. Eventually, I got better.”
He got so much better that FBS offers began rolling in and, after a return to Denmark and one semester at IMG Academy, he signed with Arkansas as a defensive tackle, the 15th-ranked defensive tackle in the entire 2015 class.
Froholdt appeared in 10 games for the Razorbacks' defense as a true freshman before switching to offense and immediately seizing the left guard spot. He hasn't given it up, starting the last 25 games and earning All-SEC First-Team honors from Pro Football Focus last year.
Now a 6-foot-5, 315-pound senior and potential pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, Hjalte Froholdt is the best No. 51 in college football.
