DRAFT SURPRISE: Tennessee Football’s Colton Hood Could Leap Jermod McCoy in NFL Draft First Round

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tennessee Volunteers eye a historic NFL Draft night as Colton Hood could leapfrog teammate Jermod McCoy in first-round projections, raising questions about draft boards and player health. Can both defensive backs break a decade-long drought and become Tennessee’s first duo to go in round one since 2010? Eric Cain spotlights Hood’s rise and McCoy’s draft-day uncertainty following an ACL injury, analyzing the latest mock drafts and exploring the ripple effect for Chris Brazzell and Joshua Josephs. The show dives into Tennessee football’s NFL pipeline under Josh Heupel, recent standout draft picks, and which Volunteers might go undrafted but make NFL rosters as free agents. On the basketball front, Eric Cain breaks down a new target from the portal—Kennesaw State’s Braeden Lue—and outlines ongoing roster moves as Rick Barnes aims to reload. Get the full preview of the Vols’ draft prospects and hoops rebuilding efforts in this action-packed episode.

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0:00.0	It's draft day and Tennessee's Colton Hood is going to be selected before Tennessee's
0:06.0	Germa McCoy in the first round coming up tonight. I'll tell you what.
0:14.0	You are locked on balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers.
0:20.0	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:24.9	Thank you Thursday morning, everybody.
0:26.2	Welcome into Locked-on Falls.
0:28.1	I'm your host, Eric Kane.
0:29.1	Thanks so much for being here a part of the show.
0:30.5	We've got a big one coming up today.
0:32.0	A new visitor scheduled to be on campus for Tennessee.
0:35.9	We'll tell you who that is, if that's a viable option for Rick Barnes and his basketball team.
0:41.2	Josh Heiple, Tennessee Volunteers' draft success.
0:44.2	What volunteers have been selected in the NFL draft under Josh Heiple?
0:47.2	We'll go down memory lane and look at some of the better draft picks from Tennessee to the NFL with draft acone up here today.
0:55.2	But first, the latest mocks for Tennessee's Colton Hood, Jamal McCoy, Chris Brasel, is there a chance that
1:01.1	Colton Hood will be selected in front of Jamal McCoy? All that and more coming up right now
1:05.4	here on Lockdown balls. And I think so. And here's the thing. I mean, there's, it feels like
1:09.9	there's always somebody that
1:11.3	gets picked apart here in the days leading up to the NFL draft. You know, a couple different
1:17.1	players. And you've got to think about this. I mean, coaches and general managers and scouts, I mean,
1:21.4	they overanalyze, they scrutinize, they nitpick every little thing because this is one of the
1:27.4	most important days ever in franchise history.
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