Elite edge rusher commits to Tennessee

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🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from the Fort Rucker Sun Room Alternate Studio) and Ryan Callahan (from the road in Georgia) contended via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to break down Tennessee’s newest commitment — elite edge defender BJ Ojulari from Marietta High School in Marietta, Ga.

Ojulari — the latest in a growing pipeline of prospects flowing from star-studded Marietta High School to Tennessee — is the nation’s No. 157 overall prospect and No. 10 weakside defensive end prospect in the 2020 industry-generated 247Sports Composite. Many thought LSU was the favorite to land Ojulari, but Tennessee doggedly pursued the prospect for nearly two years and ultimately secured his commitment in another major recruiting win for reigning 247Sports National Recruiter of the Year Brian Niedermeyer.

What kind of prospect is Ojulari? Does he have the tools that translate to an immediate impact at the SEC level? Does this help Tennessee’s chances of getting even more players from a talent-rich high school? What does this mean for Tennessee’s 2020 class at the critical edge-defender spot? And will this slow the panic from some outside the program worrying about the Vols’ class? Those are the main discussion points in this breaking-news, instant-analysis podcast episode.

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0:00.0	All right.
0:01.0	What's up y'all?
0:02.0	So, what's up here?
0:04.0	West Rucker here from the Fort Rucker Sunroom studio studio.
0:17.6	We've got Ryan Callahan coming to us from The Road.
0:21.2	Guys, why is Ryan Callahan on the road today?
0:25.1	Why are we doing the short podcast intro?
0:27.0	Ryan, big, big recruiting news for Tennessee today.
0:31.1	Big news, Tennessee Landing, four-star outside linebacker and defensive end,
0:35.0	B. J. O'Jolari of Marietta High School here in suburban Atlanta and a big pickup
0:41.5	for Tennessee for multiple reasons and we'll get into all those but obviously first and foremost it's a it's a past rushure an elite past rushure that Tennessee obviously needs to provide some immediate help next year,
0:55.6	to be able to replace Darrell Taylor, a guy that obviously has been one of the center pieces of their defense
1:01.5	for a couple of years now, and he's going to be gone next year and they don't have many scholarship guys on the roster at that position and now landing a guy like that at a major position of need.
1:11.0	It's a big big pickup for Tennessee and a major recruiting win.
1:14.0	Yeah, and from the macro view first, Ryan, I think the most important thing here, at least for me looking at it,
1:20.7	I think there have been a lot of people very concerned about this
1:24.8	Tennessee recruiting class, whether they should have been or not. You know they're
1:27.9	saying Tennessee's maybe not getting as many of the big fish as it thought it would
1:31.2	with all these big-time recruiters on this staff.
1:33.6	Well, this is a four-star kid.
1:35.2	This is the top two-four-seven kid.
1:36.6	This is a kid that pretty much everybody in the league wanted and this is a kid Tennessee
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