Bama edge rusher commits to Tennessee
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🗓️ 8 November 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Ryan Callahan (from across town at his house) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss Jimari Butler’s commitment to Tennessee.
Butler, a 6-foot-5, 218-pound edge rusher from Mobile, Ala., didn’t play football until his senior season at Murphy High School, but the former basketball player emerged as a fast learner and a fast-rising prospect on the field. He’s had a really big senior season, drawing interest from several Power-5 programs, and Tennessee finally took the plunge and offered him last month.
Edge rusher is a serious need for Tennessee in the 2020 class, and Jeremy Pruitt and Co. absolutely love Butler’s upside at a premium position.
Tennessee’s staff is full of coaches with close ties to the Mobile area, and those coaches obviously saw and heard enough about Butler to put him so high on the board. What did they see in Butler? How high is his upside? How long will he need to develop before being SEC-ready? And what’s next for Tennessee at edge rusher in this class? Those are the primary talking points of this breaking-news episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Alright. What's up y'all? |
| 0:13.0 | West Rucker coming to you from Fort Rucker studio and as you can tell by the shorter |
| 0:16.9 | intro this is a breaking news podcast on the GoValls 24-7 podcast and since it |
| 0:22.3 | involves recruiting it's not just me. |
| 0:25.5 | We've got from across town Ryan Callahan who will join me tomorrow when we go over to |
| 0:31.2 | up to Lexington Kentucky but we're not talking about the football team |
| 0:34.6 | proper right now we're talking recruiting Ryan why are we having a breaking news |
| 0:37.9 | podcast? Well another another important commitment for Tennessee they added to the |
| 0:42.3 | offensive line earlier this week, |
| 0:44.4 | now addressing one of their most glaring needs in the 2020 class |
| 0:48.4 | with the addition of three-star Edge Russia, |
| 0:50.1 | Jamari Butler of Mobile, Alabama, a guy who had picked up an offer from Tennessee a little more than |
| 0:55.3 | a month before, announced his decision Friday afternoon, picking Tennessee over more than |
| 1:00.4 | ten other offers. |
| 1:02.0 | Some other major programs had had jumped into the race for him with |
| 1:07.0 | really an really interesting background. A guy who played basketball for a couple of years in high school |
| 1:12.7 | and he's playing football this year |
| 1:14.5 | for the first time since he was in eighth grade. |
| 1:16.6 | And getting back out there, he's really impressed some people. |
| 1:19.7 | He's six foot five, 218 pounds, |
| 1:22.4 | really athletic off the edge |
| 1:24.0 | and has put up big numbers this year down in Mobile |
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