"It was a big decision for me and my family. Tennessee just felt like the right place to be. When I visited there, it was like home. There was great facilities and great coaches. Everything about Tennessee was just great."
"Being able to get down there to watch their practices, sit down and talk to the coaches and talk to them one-by-one. The three main coaches involved with the offense are Coach (Chris) Weinke, Coach (Jeremy) Pruitt and Coach (Jim) Chaney. Being able to get to sit down and talk one-on-one with them and them telling me about the chances to come in and compete for a spot, it was really big. Then, being able to watch their practice was real bad, seeing how the coaches coach up the players and how Coach Weinke coached up the quarterbacks after every drive, just telling them the rights and wrongs."
"The offense is gonna change up just a tad bit when I come in. I'm gonna have to adapt to the pro-style quarterback position that thinks and runs and just let Coach Weinke build me up to a pro-style and see how it goes. That's real big, knowing Coach Weinke was a Heisman Trophy winner -- that was big and can adapt to help me get to the next step."
"Tennessee -- they were really big. Ever since they offered me, they've shown love, texting me every day and texting my mom and dad in the morning, 'Good morning.' Tennessee even sent my little sister a 'Happy Birthday' (card). I was like, 'Wow, that really was big right there."
"I really had to take my time and figure this out. It was a long little process, I just had to enjoy the ride and take my time. It came down to the relationship that we had. They were there every day, talking to them every day. It was just love and feeling like home when it went down. I knew, ever since I came back from Tennessee, I was looking at and talking to coaches every day, putting research in all day, and it was just love."
"It's real crazy because Mother's Day runs big in my family. My great-great-grandma, she's 100 years old. There are four generations of mothers in my family. It was real special for my mom and she's gonna cry. It's gonna be fun at the same time because we trusted the process."
"This is real big for Tennessee, this 2021 class bringing in all these big-time players, is putting Tennessee back on the mountain. We're gonna come in do what we got to do to compete, get on the field and win some games."
