Let’s continue the series with a look at the Tennessee wide receivers depth chart exiting spring with a prediction of what to expect this September. Spring practice — like most all the springs before of the Butch Jones era — didn’t tell us much. But after what we saw and […]
Author: Brad Shepard
The Chico Factor
When Adrian Martinez committed to Tennessee on Friday afternoon, giving the Vols an elite quarterback prospect a year after they failed to sign a highly rated signal-caller in the 2017 class, the California star mentioned one name over and over and over in his interviews. Mike Canales. All of a […]
Post-Spring Projections: Running Backs
As we enter the football-less days of summer, we’ve got to fill our minds with visions of orange-and-white grandeur to pass the time, right? Spring practice — like most all the springs before of the Butch Jones era — didn’t tell us much. But after what we saw and read, […]
Post-Spring Projections: Quarterbacks
As we enter what I call the dark days of summer because we’re just weeks removed from spring practice but months away from actual football starting, we’ve got to fill our minds with visions of orange-and-white grandeur to pass the time, right? That’s why you see esteemed Internet sites like […]
Tennessee Recruiting: Vols Getting Lawless in Knoxville
Tennessee has the opportunity to meet a major need in the 2018 recruiting class without leaving state borders, and the first step toward achieving that massive portion of this year’s haul happened Monday night. Brant Lawless, a 4-star defensive tackle out of Nashville Christian School, pledged to Tennessee over offers […]
Tennessee’s 2017 NFL Draft Presence a Return to Normalcy
In every season but two between 1939 and 2014, the Tennessee Volunteers had at least one football player taken in the NFL Draft. The Vols dubiously doubled that number in the past two years, as zero players were taken by NFL teams. Again, we should take this opportunity to thank […]
It’s Raining Defensive Backs
Tennessee continued its recent hot streak on the recruiting trail Thursday with verbal pledges from a pair of cornerbacks. First, 6’0″, 175-pound cornerback Adonis Otey of Blackman High School in Murfreesboro decided to get the recruiting process over with in a hurry, committing to the Vols over a slew of […]
Tennessee Stays Hot on Recruiting Trail With Three More Commits
Tennessee met one of its biggest needs in the 2018 recruiting class with Friday’s pledge of Florida running back Jashaun Corbin. It wound up just the beginning to an Orange & White Game weekend. A lot of rain couldn’t dampen how hot the Volunteers were on the recruiting trail as […]
Orange & White Game Becomes Q-School
With Joshua Dobbs heading to the NFL after leading a prolific offense the past couple of years for Tennessee, it’s only natural to want things to stay fairly close to the same. Why fix something that isn’t broken, after all? That’s one of the reasons we’ve all heard so much about […]
Jashaun Corbin Gives Tennessee a Potential Star Running Back Commit
Tennessee already sits in prime shape with a lot of its top prospects for the 2018 recruiting class, but there are few bigger needs than impact running backs. The Vols certainly grabbed one of those on Friday afternoon on Orange & White Game eve, when Melbourne, Florida, running back Jashaun […]