Who should we be pursuing instead?Sorry, I hit enter before finished my thought. Sure, these guys might have an inpact. They might compete for starting time. Might is the key word. But would any of these guys be adds for Georgia or Bama, Ohio State, Michigan, Texas etc?
We need championship quality players. Instead we are letting developmental guys walk for only slight upgrades. These slight upgrades end up taking up time and reps from young development guys. They leave their previous program exoecting NIL money and substabtial playing time. If we are going to add such guys, I'd prefer we do it with significant talent upgrades. At least our initial targets. If we miss, then ok, go after what's left. But we are targeting 3 star talent.
Notre Dame transfer Holden Staes wrapped up his Georgia visit on Thursday and won’t be at Oklahoma this weekend. This is going to be the Bulldogs or Tennessee. We firmly believe Tennessee could still be the pick here as we head into the weekend.
The other big option for a transfer tight end would be Jordan Dingle of Kentucky. He will be here starting on Friday in what we believe is a ‘first one in’ gets the spot type situation.
Tennessee is in the middle of a visit with Florida transfer Jalen Famer. Tennessee is looking for help in the interior of the offensive line and Farmer would provide some depth there. He will wrap up his visit late tomorrow afternoon and we should have full coverage here at Volquest.
Oregon State transfer Jermod McCoy wrapped up his visit on Thursday and is off to Texas A&M. He has talked about taking some visits in January, but as of Thursday night, we do not believe that will happen as this shapes up to be an Aggie versus Tennessee battle. You have to wonder if playing in his home state of Texas is too much for Tennessee to overcome, but Tennessee did a nice job with his visit as he and his dad really jelled with Willie Martinez. Martinez and the dad have several mutual connections.
UCF transfer Corey Thornton might make it here this weekend. He signed a waiver with Ole Miss that would prevent him from visiting other Southeastern Conference schools earlier this week, but did not understand what signing the paper would mean. He has asked out of that and Ole Miss apparently has granted his wish, but things have not been totally cleared up and until they are he cannot visit Tennessee. He is at Louisville this weekend and if things get cleared up would head to Knoxville after that.
Tulane transfer Chris Brazzell is in the middle of his whirlwind week of visits. After his visit to Tennessee, he went to Utah, then was off to see Washington and Colorado. The Buffaloes appear to be Tennessee’s biggest competition with their stability at the quarterback position heading into next season.
Villanova cornerback Devon Marshall will be in town later today until Saturday morning before heading to N.C. State. He is one the Vols like, but we do not believe he is the top of the defensive back board coming into the visit.
Speaking of January, A&M transfer Fidel Diggs has told Tennessee he will visit Knoxville in January.
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