'20 TN WR AJ Davis

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bigl3327 said:
Hurd bulked up and lost his burst. Even getting back to under 230 to play WR, he never got back the burst he had as a junior in high school. He was under 210 during that time.
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As a freshman, Hurd was maybe 215 and he couldn’t outrun linebackers. He was never anywhere near as fast as they said he was in HighSchool. In nearly 600 carries at Tennessee, never had a 50 yard run.

And again, after slimming down to 220 at Baylor, after 5 years of strength and conditioning and all kinds of concentrated speed work (remember the videos of him on the treadmills?) in the offseason and in preparation for his ProDay.....he ran 4.68.
 
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UTwild82 said:
I love the Vols, but I can't imagine turning down the opportunity get a free education from a university the caliber of IU only to pay to go to school at UT.
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Here is my question though....if his grades were good, could he not apply for Tennessee Hope and other scholarships to pay his way (or at least most of it) until granted a scholarship? I'm sure Pruitt laid out a plan of when a scholarship could be granted and how to pay for school in the meantime.
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
Here is my question though....if his grades were good, could he not apply for Tennessee Hope and other scholarships to pay his way (or at least most of it) until granted a scholarship? I'm sure Pruitt laid out a plan of when a scholarship could be granted and how to pay for school in the meantime.
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Good question and I bet you are correct.
 
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KBVol said:
As a freshman, Hurd was maybe 215 and he couldn’t outrun linebackers. He was never anywhere near as fast as they said he was in HighSchool. In nearly 600 carries at Tennessee, never had a 50 yard run.

And again, after slimming down to 220 at Baylor, after 5 years of strength and conditioning and all kinds of concentrated speed work (remember the videos of him on the treadmills?) in the offseason and in preparation for his ProDay.....he ran 4.68.
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Hurd was 225 his freshman year. Not 215.
 
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KBVol said:
As a freshman, Hurd was maybe 215 and he couldn’t outrun linebackers. He was never anywhere near as fast as they said he was in HighSchool. In nearly 600 carries at Tennessee, never had a 50 yard run.

And again, after slimming down to 220 at Baylor, after 5 years of strength and conditioning and all kinds of concentrated speed work (remember the videos of him on the treadmills?) in the offseason and in preparation for his ProDay.....he ran 4.68.
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Can't pass up an opportunity to bash the young man huh? Puzzling.
 
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KBVol said:
When he got to Tennessee as a 215-220 lb running back he looked like a 4.6-4.7 guy, BEFORE he bulked up. AT NO POINT in his freshman year, after a spring and summer of collegiate strength and conditioning, was he even close to sniffing a 4.37, unless all those linebackers who were chasing him down and eliminating angles in the secondary were running 4.1s.

It really is amazing to me how many times guys/fans buy this stuff, that kids are running legit 4.3s and 4.4s in HighSchool, only to see those same kids run 4.5s and 4.6s at their pro days or at the combine, 4-5 years later, after 4-5 years of elite strength and conditioning training in college.
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If it is verified at a certified event then it is legit. What is the story in this case?
 
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KBVol said:
As a freshman, Hurd was maybe 215 and he couldn’t outrun linebackers. He was never anywhere near as fast as they said he was in HighSchool. In nearly 600 carries at Tennessee, never had a 50 yard run.

And again, after slimming down to 220 at Baylor, after 5 years of strength and conditioning and all kinds of concentrated speed work (remember the videos of him on the treadmills?) in the offseason and in preparation for his ProDay.....he ran 4.68.
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Also, Hurd's junior year, he was the fastest high school player I had ever seen in person in the state of TN. That was over 30 years of watching TN high school football. Fernando Bryant was the second fastest.
 
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KBVol said:
As a freshman, Hurd was maybe 215 and he couldn’t outrun linebackers. He was never anywhere near as fast as they said he was in HighSchool. In nearly 600 carries at Tennessee, never had a 50 yard run.

And again, after slimming down to 220 at Baylor, after 5 years of strength and conditioning and all kinds of concentrated speed work (remember the videos of him on the treadmills?) in the offseason and in preparation for his ProDay.....he ran 4.68.
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Didn’t Hurd have a knee injury as a senior and missed a good portion of the season ?
 
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KBVol said:
As a freshman, Hurd was maybe 215 and he couldn’t outrun linebackers. He was never anywhere near as fast as they said he was in HighSchool. In nearly 600 carries at Tennessee, never had a 50 yard run.

And again, after slimming down to 220 at Baylor, after 5 years of strength and conditioning and all kinds of concentrated speed work (remember the videos of him on the treadmills?) in the offseason and in preparation for his ProDay.....he ran 4.68.
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Hurd ran a 4.47 at Baylor
 
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Would love to see us add both Davis & Holden Willis as PWOs.



One day in the summer of 2016, AJ Davis called his father and told him he didn’t want to go to Alcoa. He wanted to go to the Tornadoes' biggest rival —Maryville. His father hung up the phone.

AJ was about to be a freshman and he had already been attending summer workouts at Alcoa, where his father, Albert Davis, and grandfather, Albert "Sonny" Davis, became football legends. Because Blount County is open-zoned, AJ could pick among three other high schools. Some of his friends, like Tee Hodge, now a Tennessee football commitment, were going to Maryville and AJ wanted to join them.

It took awhile, but his father finally relented. “I knew that if I went to Alcoa,” said AJ, who is a senior, “I would have been in my grandfather’s and father’s shadow.”
Why star receiver AJ Davis picked Maryville, even though grandfather and father are Alcoa legends

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Really hope this kid ends up a Vol somehow. Saw him at an event early in the year and nobody could cover him. Borderline scholly-worthy imo.
 
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BreatheUT said:
Kids like this you hope have good enough grades to earn an academic scholarship to replace an athletic scholarship they passed up elsewhere. As a PWO he will get all or most of the other benefits of being on the team besides money.
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He’ll get a scholarship as soon as it’s greenlit. Vols have an epic PWO program.
 
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blackflag said:
Davis' grandfather is the best player to ever come out of Blount County, no exceptions. After high school he signed with Tennessee but I think grades might've kept him out so he went to Tennessee State and played running back with the Philadelphia Eagles after his college career concluded. Davis' dad was a heck of a running back at Alcoa during his high school days as well. The kid comes by his athleticism honestly.
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I would think Albert Davis was one of the top 10 high school players ever to play in Tennessee. he was a man among boys.
 
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vettefool said:
I would think Albert Davis was one of the top 10 high school players ever to play in Tennessee. he was a man among boys.
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Mentioned this in another thread....The '66 Maryville/ Alcoa game was a classic. Crowd was estimated at 5-10k. AD was leading the state in scoring if I remember correctly. MHS won a nail biter led by Parade All American Larry Johnson.

AHS won the state bb championship the next spring.
 
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fifties fan said:
Mentioned this in another thread....The '66 Maryville/ Alcoa game was a classic. Crowd was estimated at 5-10k. AD was leading the state in scoring if I remember correctly. MHS won a nail biter led by Parade All American Larry Johnson.

AHS won the state bb championship the next spring.
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In “66” I was 5 years old living in Flint, Mi. I do remember seeing the game headlines in the paper the next morning if memory serves me right.
 
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