BREAKING: Four-star Georgia receiver commits to Tennessee

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🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Patrick Brown (from his house at an undisclosed location) and Ryan Callahan (from his house across town) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss four-star wide receiver Julian Nixon’s commitment to Tennessee.

The 6-foot-3, 230-pound Nixon has been a big-time prospect since early in his career at Centennial High School in Roswell, Ga., but he claimed to choose Tennessee over Ohio State and Georgia. Auburn was a factor for much of his recruitment, as well, and for a while the Tigers seemed to be the team to beat. Ultimately, though, the No. 238 overall player in the 2021 industry-generated 247Sports Composite chose the Vols.

Nixon became the Vols’ third high-profile commitment in three days, joining five star-edge rusher Dylan Brooks (who committed to Sunday) and four-star safety Kamar Wilcoxson (who committed to Monday) as the newest additions to a Tennessee class that has soared from No. 17 to No. 5 nationally in less than 48 hours.

What kind of player is Nixon? How does he fit into Tennessee’s system? Is he definitely a wide receiver going forward, or could be grow into a tight end or a hybrid pass catcher? How has Tennessee gotten so hot on the recruiting trail during this prolonged dead period caused by the COVID-19 pandemic? Is recruiting momentum a real thing, or is this three-day heater a coincidence? What does this commitment mean for the rest of Tennessee’s 2021 class? Those are the main topics discussed in this one-segment episode.

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0:00.0	Alright. Soap y'all welcome on into the GoValls 24-7 podcast a breaking news
0:18.1	edition of the Go-Valls 24-7 podcast we've done a bunch of these lately
0:22.3	West Rucker here joined by 4-7 podcast. We've done a bunch of these lately.
0:23.0	West Rucker here joined by Patrick Brown, Ryan Callahan,
0:27.0	and for the third consecutive day, we have some interesting, interesting, and big and good news on Tennessee football recruiting.
0:35.2	Ryan Callahan, I guess I'll go to you first.
0:37.6	Why are we having this breaking news podcast?
0:39.8	Yeah, third straight, big addition for Tennessee, another four star wide receiver, Julian
0:46.4	Nixon out of Roswell, Georgia committing to the Valls, picking Tennessee over Ohio State
0:51.7	and now in Georgia and Auburn was involved heavily at one point,
0:56.7	a bunch of big time programs involved with this guy in Tennessee's been among them and after him for a long time and this is one where the
1:05.7	riding was sort of on the wall for a few weeks. You know, people saw some crystal ball picks
1:09.8	including one for me come in earlier this month, so we kind of had an idea this might be coming at some point
1:15.3	but still to to actually land a guy like that and continue this hot street Tennessee's been on just a really
1:21.3	impressive week to start with five-star edge Russia
1:24.2	Dylan Brooks committing on Sunday and obviously adding on on Monday the
1:29.6	commitment from four-star defensive back, Camar Wilcox, and then to follow that up with this, a pretty impressive
1:35.6	stretch here for Tennessee to go on this kind of run during a dead period when no one's able to take any visits.
1:41.2	Yeah, Pat, has this been as interesting to you as it has been, you know, to me and to I think a lot of other
1:46.0	people that while this thing is going down, I mean kids are committing to other schools too, it's not just Tennessee,
1:51.6	but Tennessee is really on a heater here and I don't really know
1:55.2	exactly what they're doing with these kids right now, but they've got something going on, Pat.
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