BREAKING: Alabama athlete commits to Tennessee
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🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Ryan Callahan (from his house across town) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss big Alabama wide receiver Roc Taylor’s Friday afternoon commitment to Tennessee.
The 6-foot-4, 205-pound Taylor chose Tennessee over a list of several other offers, including SEC programs Florida and Arkansas. He became the Vols’ 10th commitment in the 2021 class and their third commitment during this recruiting dead period caused by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
What kind of prospect is Taylor? Is he definitely a wide receiver going forward, or could a move to tight end or somewhere else come down the line? Why have the Vols been able to continue recruiting so effectively during this dead period, and does this 10-strong foundation at such an early period help them become more selective the rest of the cycle and focus on the players toward the top of their board? What does the addition of Taylor mean for the recruiting at the wide receiver and tight end positions for the rest of this cycle? Those are the main discussion points in this quick, one-segment episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. What's up y'all? |
| 0:20.0 | Sup y'all, West Rucker coming to you from Fort Rucker studio here on a Friday afternoon. Happy Good Friday to everyone who celebrates today. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome on into the Go-alls 24-7 podcast, |
| 0:25.1 | as you can tell by the truncated version of that intro. |
| 0:27.8 | This is a breaking news addition to the podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | Not just me on this episode. |
| 0:31.6 | We've got from just across town there our recruiting editor at GoValls 24-7 Ryan Callahan and as you can probably guess by Ryan being the |
| 0:40.0 | the other person on this breaking news episode we've've got a commitment to talk about. Ryan, |
| 0:44.3 | first off, welcome on in man and tell us, tell everybody the good news. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, Tennessee getting another 2021 commitment from athlete Rock Taylor of Oxford, Alabama, a guy who's had an offer |
| 0:56.3 | from Tennessee for more than four months now and listed as a wide receiver. |
| 1:01.6 | He made that pretty prominent in the graphic that Tennessee, I guess, produced for him to announce that decision. |
| 1:08.8 | But another receiver potentially to add to this 2021 class and another nice early pickup from the state of Alabama where they continue to do some really good work early on. |
| 1:19.1 | So Tennessee now making some making some real moves during this dead period three commitments in a |
| 1:25.4 | span of a just a couple weeks after getting Walker Maryland and Jayland |
| 1:30.2 | Jayland Riot last week at running back. So impressive, nice little stretch here for Tennessee despite visits being shut down |
| 1:37.6 | at least through the end of May and Rock Taylor, another big body guy 6-4-25 to add to that receiver position where they really started to stockpile some depth in this class and the last one they just signed in February. Yeah, and this is a kid 6-4-205 pounds as you mentioned this is the fourth guy I guess they've gotten in this |
| 1:54.4 | class from Alabama Jeremy Perritt's roots down in that state his native land are |
| 1:59.1 | well known Auburn and Alabama have kicked the tires a little bit but haven't offered yet but this kid does have offers from Florida Arkansas |
| 2:06.2 | and a lot of other SEC interests so this is a legitimate this is a legitimate kid here anytime you're in the top 450 or so top 500 you're a you're an SEC caliber prospect usually and there's a lot to like about this kid just looking at some of the film and stuff Ryan I mean |
| 2:22.2 | Whether he's a wide receiver, tied in, whatever he is, |
| 2:25.5 | I know there's a positionless basketball world out there now and it seems like football's getting |
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