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10.27.22: After a sophomore season with 21 catches for 226 yards and two touchdowns, Hyatt realized he was Backup to Velus Jones Jr. Good and nothing more. If he wanted to ascend to another level, he’d have to pull himself up there. “He finally saw this spring that he can be the guy,” Golesh said.
Said Hyatt: “I knew last offseason I had to take it seriously.” The guy who rolled in at 7:20 a.m. became the guy who arrived at 6:30 a.m. and made sure he ate a proper breakfast every day and reviewed his notes from the previous day. He worked in the dining hall and the weight room to build the bulk and strength his coaches had asked him to add. He embraced the hand-to-hand combat required to get off press coverage and the blocking needed to spring a teammate on a bubble screen. “He wanted to be a good player in Year 1,” Heupel said. “Year 2, he worked to be a good player.”
Heupel saw the same surge in confidence from Hyatt in spring 2022 that he saw from Tillman the year before. After spring practice, Hyatt called his parents and warned them they wouldn’t see much of him during the summer. There was some freedom to go home, but Hyatt wanted to stay in Knoxville to work. That included route running, pass catching, weightlifting and fork lifting. No, Hyatt wasn’t running heavy equipment. He was eating five meals a day so he could reach his goal weight of 185...He ate two breakfasts, a lunch and two dinners. And the second helpings weren’t small. If he ate country-fried steak and mashed potatoes for dinner at 5 p.m., he loaded his plate the same way for round two at 8 p.m. And when the scale started moving up without knocking any mph off his top speed, Hyatt rejoiced. He could get bigger and physically remove the hands of safeties whose only chance to cover him was to knock him off his route. He could spring a teammate with a block near the sideline.
Just how good is Tennessee's Jalin Hyatt? He's not done showing us
Said Hyatt: “I knew last offseason I had to take it seriously.” The guy who rolled in at 7:20 a.m. became the guy who arrived at 6:30 a.m. and made sure he ate a proper breakfast every day and reviewed his notes from the previous day. He worked in the dining hall and the weight room to build the bulk and strength his coaches had asked him to add. He embraced the hand-to-hand combat required to get off press coverage and the blocking needed to spring a teammate on a bubble screen. “He wanted to be a good player in Year 1,” Heupel said. “Year 2, he worked to be a good player.”
Heupel saw the same surge in confidence from Hyatt in spring 2022 that he saw from Tillman the year before. After spring practice, Hyatt called his parents and warned them they wouldn’t see much of him during the summer. There was some freedom to go home, but Hyatt wanted to stay in Knoxville to work. That included route running, pass catching, weightlifting and fork lifting. No, Hyatt wasn’t running heavy equipment. He was eating five meals a day so he could reach his goal weight of 185...He ate two breakfasts, a lunch and two dinners. And the second helpings weren’t small. If he ate country-fried steak and mashed potatoes for dinner at 5 p.m., he loaded his plate the same way for round two at 8 p.m. And when the scale started moving up without knocking any mph off his top speed, Hyatt rejoiced. He could get bigger and physically remove the hands of safeties whose only chance to cover him was to knock him off his route. He could spring a teammate with a block near the sideline.
Just how good is Tennessee's Jalin Hyatt? He's not done showing us
