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The offer from Tennessee came less than 24 hours after Harrell threw for a career-high 410 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for another 58 yards and two more scores Friday night in Thompson’s 48-35 victory at Spain Park High School in Hoover, Ala. Harrell, who was making his fourth career start, completed 19 of 29 passes and also threw one interception — his first of the season — in the victory.
Stiff told Harrell, who claims to have been timed at 4.5 seconds in the 40-yard dash, that the Vols have been impressed by what they have seen from him on film.
“Coach Stiff just said they’ve seen all my film, starting from the Oxford game, and they like what they see,” Harrell said, “so they wanted to go ahead and be the first to offer me.”
callahan“When they started singing the ‘Rocky Top’ song, it was really cool — I’m not going to lie. It was pretty cool,” Harrell said. “Everybody in the stadium started singing the same song. I’d never been in an environment like that, aside from going to an Iron Bowl game.