BREAKING: Another touted Florida DB picks Vols

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🗓️ 3 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Grant Ramey (from GoVols247’s Blount County Satellite Office in Maryville) and Ryan Callahan (from his house across town) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss touted Florida safety De’Shawn Rucker’s commitment to Tennessee.

The Vols have been on an absolute bender in the past week, adding six commitments — all from touted prospects with big offers — and surging into the No. 3 spot nationally in the 247Sports Team Recruiting Rankings.

It’s tough to keep up with torrid Tennessee on the trail these days, but this episode nonetheless touches on tons of topics in only one, easily-digestible segment.

What kind of prospect is Rucker? Does he project as more of a safety or a versatile player in the Tennessee secondary? How did the Vols convince him to pick them despite an offer sheet that included Clemson, Alabama, Auburn, LSU, the Big Three in Florida and many, many more? How in the world has Tennessee done what it’s done in the past week? Who’s the next domino to potentially fall into the Vols’ lap? What does this commitment mean for the rest of Tennessee’s 2021 class? Those are the primary discussion points in this episode.

The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released early this week, unless major breaking news occurs before that point.

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0:00.0	Hi. Sup y'all welcome on into the Go Valls 24-7 podcast got a breaking
0:18.1	addition of the Go-Valls 24-7 podcast as per usual had a bunch these lately. West Rucker coming to you from Port
0:24.2	Rucker Studio. Got Ryan Callahan and Grant Ramey coming to you from 20 minutes or so on either side of me.
0:30.0	I guess fellas will go first to Ryan and Ryan this is yet another go-valls 24-7
0:36.7	podcast breaking news episode and why are we bringing these people yet another one of
0:41.6	these? bring in these people yet another one of these.
0:47.8	Because Tennessee has for the sixth time in a little more than a week gotten a commitment. It's a pretty important one.
0:49.3	Yet again, Deshaun Rucker, defensive back from Tallahassee, Florida, Godbee High School, commits to Tennessee on Sunday,
0:57.0	picking the balls over about 20 other big-time offers, a lot of big-time offers on his list of options and really Clemson and Florida State were among the main
1:08.0	contenders so you're talking about the hometown school in Florida State and Clemson a big program that's obviously been
1:13.5	hot in recruiting the past few years and he just visited both of those schools
1:16.8	in early March and yet Tennessee was one of the first schools in the door for him
1:20.4	back in January I think gave him his first SEC offer and was involved
1:25.3	with him pretty heavily. Got him on campus a few weeks after that for a junior day on
1:28.6	February 1st and just stayed high on his list from that point forward and now wins out in a pretty big recruiting battle for a really fast defensive back who gives him some versatility back there and you know can maybe play the star position that a nickel spot and just another really big
1:45.4	pickup for Tennessee and what's been a really huge week they were already number three in the
1:49.0	country in the 24-7 sports composite team rankings number one in the SEC and now they just continue to
1:54.4	add to this hot streak this ridiculous tear they've been on up to 16 commitments
1:58.2	already in the true of their 2021 class. Grant I know that when you look at it was earlier this week I can't remember which one of Tennessee's coaches it was that you know not long after the
2:09.4	the latest five-star bomb dropped when Lewis committed.
2:13.5	Tennessee, one of the coaches said,
2:15.3	Tennessee, we're not even, we're not close to done yet,
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