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It's over: Top-50 signee JJ Peterson finally joining Vols
The waiting is finally over.
JJ Peterson is a Tennessee Vol.
The prized linebacker signee finally has been given the green light to head to Knoxville will join the Vols on Sunday after receiving word from the NCAA Eligibility Center on Friday, Rush Propst, his former coach at Colquitt County High School in Moultrie, Ga., told GoVols247 on Friday.
Peterson is expected to begin practicing next week, though he'll have to go through the NCAA-mandated acclimation period before his first workout in full pads.
Ideally the 6-foot-2, 231-pounder would have been on campus for all of summer and all of camp to position himself to be an immediate contributor for the Vols as a freshman, but now Tennessee will have to work him into things while preparing for games every week, though college football's new redshirt rules, which allow players to play in four games at any point of a season and not lose a full season, mean the Vols can take it slowly with Peterson and perhaps unleash him later in the season.