Two Key players has decided to join Tennessee volunteer
Two Key players has decided to join Tennessee volunteer
Tennessee’s protective line will hold a few of its profundity after all.
A day after reports surfaced that Jayson Jenkins planned to enter the exchange entrance, the up and coming redshirt sophomore has chosen to stay with the Vols.
Jenkins, a previous four-star prospect from Unused Shirt in Tennessee’s 2022 marking course, has showed up in seven diversions over the final two seasons. He played in six recreations as a redshirt first year recruit in 2023, totaling four handles and a handle for misfortune.
Taking after the exchange of beginning cautious conclusion Tyler Aristocrat in December, the 6-foot-6, 280-pound saw an expanded part, playing 13 snaps within the Vols’ 35-0 win over Iowa in the Citrus Bowl.
“Jayson (Jenkins) may be a blue collar fellow,” Tennessee cautious line coach Rodney Garner said final month. “He fair comes to work each day with his lunchbox and he puts int he work and you have got seen that fellow develop jumps and bounds, incrementally. I cruel, he really has taken steps where he can truly have a part on this defense and I think he’s picked up the regard of his pears, since no one has given him anything. I cruel, he’s had to work for each small thing that he has gotten.”
Tennessee is set to return much of its generation on the cautious front another season with junior Tyre West expected to grapple the edge opposite James Pearce Jr. at protective conclusion with redshirt senior Dominic Bailey, profoundly touted first year recruit newcomer Jordan Ross and possibly Jenkins figuring into the revolution.
In spite of the fact that the Vols are anticipated to have one of the most excellent cautious lines within the SEC, much of those players will be gone after next season, making Jenkins’ choice to return more vital for long haul of the position.
Because it stands, Tennessee has had one player enter the exchange entry since the spring window opened final week. Sophomore linebacker and leading tackler Elijah Herring entered on April 15.
The spring window runs through April 30.