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MTSU safety transferring to Tennessee

GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

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🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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GoVols247's Ben McKee and Ryan Callahan discuss the newest Tennessee football commitment — safety Jakobe Thomas from Middle Tennessee State. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going to happen tonight? What's going to happen?

0:05.0

What's going to happen? We're going to whoop this. Welcome into the GoVall's 24-7 podcast podcast another breaking news edition I have been

0:24.3

McKee joined by Ryan Callahan and this is another breaking news edition because

0:29.2

Tennessee has picked up a second commitment in the transfer portal Ryan Callahan.

0:35.2

That's right. Jacobi Thomas, a safety from Middle Tennessee.

0:40.2

Redshirt sophomore. So a guy with two remaining seasons of eligibility and he is

0:46.7

addressed one of Tennessee's more pressing needs in the transfer portal they already

0:51.6

went out and got the tight end they so desperately needed

0:54.9

obviously on Friday with the addition of of Notre Dame's Holden stays and now the secondary was kind of the next, you know, really

1:06.9

pressing need I think with all the guys that have entered the transfer portal recently.

1:10.8

There's certainly other needs on this team and we'll spend plenty of time talking about the next few weeks.

1:16.0

Wide receiver obviously offensive line, even defensive line to a degree, you know, there are others.

1:23.8

But the secondary had become, I think,

1:26.1

the second most pressing need behind tied in

1:28.5

because six defensive backs from Tennessee's roster

1:31.8

have already entered the transfer portal and don't appear to be coming back.

1:34.7

And then we're still awaiting an answer from Gave Judy Lally on what he's going to do next season.

1:40.1

Another starter who could be headed to the NFL draft.

1:43.0

So Kamal Haden's leaving.

1:45.0

It's a position that could look very, very different next year for Tennessee.

1:49.0

So you need some immediate impact guys out of the portal at least one corner and one safety I think and

1:55.7

we'll see if they add a second corner or anything else like that but safety was one of those

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