BREAKING: Speedy RB commits to Tennessee

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🗓️ 30 March 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 speedy running back Jaylen Wright's commitment to Tennessee.

Wright, a 5-foot-11, 187-pound star at Southern High School in Durham, N.C., chose the Vols over a list of offers that included Miami, Arizona State and Syracuse, among others. He became the eighth public commitment and second public running back commitment in Tennessee's 2021 class, and he also hopes to run track for the Vols.

How much of an impact did Jay Graham play in this process? What kind of player is Wright? How do his skills project to the next level? Is he merely a speed merchant, or does he have the potential be much more? What's next for Tennessee at the running back position in this class? How much does the uncertainly of the Zach Evans situation play into that? Those are some of the main discussion points in a breaking-news episode that covers a lot of ground in a small amount of time.

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0:00.0	Hi. What's
0:15.0	coming to you from Fort Rucker studio? This is the GoVall's 24-7 podcast as you can tell by the truncated version of the intro. This is a breaking news addition of the Goval's 24-7 podcast not just me on this episode obviously we've got our very own recruiting editor Ryan Callahanahan, from across town, and Ryan, why are we bringing people this breaking news addition to the podcast?
0:37.5	Well, the sports world is not alive and active at this point, but there's still plenty of recruiting and an example of that on Monday afternoon, Tennessee getting a commitment from class of 2021 running back Jeline Wright of Durham, North Carolina.
0:54.0	A guy who visited Tennessee for the first time,
0:57.0	just a few weeks ago, had gotten an offer from the Vols back in early February,
1:01.0	and right after that visit on March 7th, said Tennessee was was number one at the time on his growing list of offers.
1:09.0	Didn't quite hit double digits at that point, So he had a handful of major conference offers
1:15.6	in Tennessee was one of the first to get him on campus.
1:17.4	So made since they were his leader at the time.
1:19.8	But a few weeks removed from that visit,
1:22.2	just kind of, I think seeing the
1:23.6	uncertainty at the the sports world right now and not knowing when visits were
1:27.0	going to open up and then just feeling really good about everything that had happened
1:30.1	at Tennessee decides on the voles and gives Tennessee what might be a really nice sort of under the
1:36.0	radar find early in the process one of those guys who looks like he's got the talent and potential
1:41.2	to maybe get some other big offers here down the stretch over the next several months and potentially a guy
1:46.8	Tennessee might have to fight to hold on to if his name gets out there more.
1:49.7	Yeah, it's interesting Ryan because there's I guess I guess for the deets on him right now, he is a three-star running back.
1:56.8	He does have a growing offer list.
1:58.7	He does have incredibly, I don't want to say incredibly good, very good spreading numbers he's a North Carolina state
2:04.8	champion believe he's been clocked at he's been the state champion in 55 meter and he runs the
2:11.1	he is personal best to the 100 I believe is 10-84 I believe was the number that you wrote earlier so this kid can run
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