“I mean, I really liked it very much,” said Evans, who’s ranked the No. 29 overall prospect and No. 2 weakside defensive end in the industry-generated 247Sports Composite for the 2020 class. “I hope to go there for some games a little bit more to build that connection with the coaches. But everything, overall, it was a good game. They fought even though it was Alabama.”
Evans, who holds offers from at least 17 schools, said he decided to travel to Tennessee on Saturday with a couple of his coaches and one of his teammates because of his interactions with first-year Vols coach
Jeremy Pruitt’s staff.
Chris Rumph, Tennessee’s co-defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach, currently is serving as Evans’ primary recruiter for the Vols. “(I like) just the coaches, how they treat me and how they talk to me,” Evans said. “They’re just cool.”
“I mean, I was just watching how their defense was playing and stuff like that,” he said. “They didn’t back down from the challenge. “The fans, they were into it. I liked the fans and stuff like that, how many people that was there.” Evans said he spoke with both Pruitt and Rumph during the visit. “They were just saying, ‘I like you very much. You’re a good athlete. We’re going to keep building this relationship with you. I want you,’ and just stuff like that,” Evans said.
“They’d been waiting for a while to talk to me and (for me) to come to their game.” Asked whether he plans to visit the Vols again at some point, he said, “Oh, yeah.”
