'19 SC WR/DB Kenney Solomon (Tennessee signee)

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BJWeeks said:
Not sure why he blueshirted. He would have been #22. Count Gibbs and Solomon and Harris and you got 25. Only signed 22 last year.
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22 last year, but we had transfers too. A few had to be blueshirts. 25 this year included a few blueshirts. Our options this year were to sign maybe 23 max with no blueshirts or 24-25 with a couple blueshirts.
 
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One thing I will say about this kid is, and this is mostly why I wanted Jammie Robinson, KS looks like he can make an impact on punt returns. If he never contributes on defense but is a respectable punt returner then that would be okay with me.

Love Calloway but it was frustrating seeing nothing but fair catche last year (minus that TD against Charlotte)
 
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Ace said:
I want to clear this up. Blue shirts cannot be announced until they have been accepted for admittance into school and paid housing deposit (I know weird). But once accepted coaches can talk about them, but they do not sign papers and they cannot have been on campus for an Official Visit. They visit on their dime.
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He didn’t officially visit, so hmmm......
 
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VOLuptuousBOOMS said:
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Socastee
Myrtle Beach, SC

Kenney Solomon, Socastee Hi, Cornerback
Kenney Solomon, 2019 Cornerback - Rivals




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He is so fast he makes good angles for tackles look bad..
 
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Solomon obviously has impressive speed but looking at his HS numbers, IMO he wasn't as productive as one might expect and that may help to explain why he was so lightly recruited. In his last 2 seasons (17 games) Solomon:

* rushed 64 times for 346 yards & 1 TD (5.4 ypc)
* caught 30 passes for 624 yards & 5 TDs (20.8 avg)
* returned 21 kickoffs for 368 yards (17.5 avg) & 1 TD of 89 yards; averaged 14.0 yards on the other 20 returns
* returned 13 punts for 179 yards (13.8 avg) & 2 TDs of 85 and 68 yards; averaged 2.4 yards on the other 11 returns
* recorded 36 total tackles & 6 INTs

His receiving numbers are very good albeit limited, but overall I'd say his performance was slightly underwhelming considering he was probably the fastest guy on the field in most games. Playing on a bad team have have hindered Solomon from fully showcasing what he's capable of, though, and I don't think Socastee head coach Doug Illing got the ball into his hands enough (just 7.5 times per game).

“When he puts his foot in the ground and plants, I’ve never seen anything like that, and I’ve had some good ones,” Illing said of Solomon’s abilities at cornerback. “He has the great anticipation with that explosion. He’s just got tremendous talent. He’s so explosive with his speed. The NFL is built around speed. When you get a kid like that, you want to try to utilize that the best you can...He hasn’t even touched his potential here in high school with his speed. That’s one of the things I tell college coaches - we train him at so many positions he never gets skill development at one.”
Socastee’s Solomon wraps up high school football career
 
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kamoshika said:
Solomon obviously has impressive speed but looking at his HS numbers, IMO he wasn't as productive as one might expect and that may help to explain why he was so lightly recruited. In his last 2 seasons (17 games) Solomon:

* rushed 64 times for 346 yards & 1 TD (5.4 ypc)
* caught 30 passes for 624 yards & 5 TDs (20.8 avg)
* returned 21 kickoffs for 368 yards (17.5 avg) & 1 TD of 89 yards; averaged 14.0 yards on the other 20 returns
* returned 13 punts for 179 yards (13.8 avg) & 2 TDs of 85 and 68 yards; averaged 2.4 yards on the other 11 returns
* recorded 36 total tackles & 6 INTs

His receiving numbers are very good albeit limited, but overall I'd say his performance was slightly underwhelming considering he was probably the fastest guy on the field in most games. Playing on a bad team have have hindered Solomon from fully showcasing what he's capable of, though, and I don't think Socastee head coach Doug Illing got the ball into his hands enough (just 7.5 times per game).

“When he puts his foot in the ground and plants, I’ve never seen anything like that, and I’ve had some good ones,” Illing said of Solomon’s abilities at cornerback. “He has the great anticipation with that explosion. He’s just got tremendous talent. He’s so explosive with his speed. The NFL is built around speed. When you get a kid like that, you want to try to utilize that the best you can...He hasn’t even touched his potential here in high school with his speed. That’s one of the things I tell college coaches - we train him at so many positions he never gets skill development at one.”
Socastee’s Solomon wraps up high school football career
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So this kid has 6 interceptions in two seasons and that’s underwhelming but Tyus fields only had 7 interceptions for his whole high school career according to max preps. I think we have a lock down corner in Solomon but I guess we’ll see
I looked up Warren Burrell’s stats and he only had 6 total interceptions his Jr and sr years too. Nobody’s complaining about those two because they have stars by their names
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
So a whopping 1 player huh?
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In the NFC and AFC Championship games this year there was 30 2 star recruits versus 4 5 star, and 16 4 star recruits. If you look at the break down of the NFL and NFL hall of fame you will see that it is composed of more 2 star and 3 star recruits than 5/4 star.

You can also look at this by state players draft, the state of Tennessee has been producing a lot of talent lately for the NFL but that talent is not going to the University of Tennessee as much as it should. Is this a recruiting problem? or is the some guys got coached up? or is the they grew up into their bodies? Who knows, but I do know that there has been many civilizations that didn't realize the problems in the world because they were too busy gazing at the stars...

Credit the info shared about civilizations to the wonderful University of Tennessee History Department.
 
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He’s competitive nationally in the 100m. This is the results for the 100m at New Balance National Championship in Greensboro. Let’s see what he can do on the football field
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I like his film! Great find by Pruitt and staff....He should be a red shirt, hit it hard in the weight room and will be a future contributor at corner!
 
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By the way, Tennessee's official Twitter account RT'd his tweet about "being blessed to be a Vol," so I'm guessing that's official acknowledgement that he's part of this class. They haven't done that with Anthony Harris as of yet (I know his are because of grades, don't think that's Solomon's case for blueshirting).
 
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I_Bleed_Orange77 said:
Not trying to be rude but why should we be excited about this guy? His offer list is atrocious.
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It's been said numerous times----our coaching staff doesn't give a rats a$$ about stars. They know what a football player looks like. That's good enough for most knowledgeable Vol fans.
 
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