NEWCOMER: Faizon Brandon, Tristen Keys EXPECTED to be KEY Freshmen for Tennessee Football

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Will any Tennessee freshmen be a key contributor for Tennessee football this season? Five-star incoming quarterback Faizon Brandon could be the starting quarterback and fellow five-star Tristen Keys could be a weapon at wide receiver. Who else is expected to help Tennessee as true freshmen next fall? What games are most important on the schedule for Josh Heupel and Tennessee football this season?

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0:00.0	Just like the transfers, now we're going to do it with the freshmen.
0:03.5	There's a couple of Tennessee freshmen that are absolutely going to help Tennessee this fall.
0:08.2	Post-Spring thoughts on the Tennessee great recruiting class.
0:16.0	You are Locked on Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:27.3	Good Friday morning, everybody.
0:28.9	Welcome into Lockdown Falls.
0:30.6	I am your host, Eric Kane, a member of the Ballquest.com team here in town covering your Tennessee Volunteers.
0:35.5	We got a busy, busy show here today. In
0:38.1	segments two and three, I'm going to go through my listing here on what the games mean to me,
0:43.8	essentially game meaning rankings. There's a better way to say this. Let me try this again.
0:50.3	I'm going to rank 12 down to 1, which games are most important for me.
0:55.2	We talked about most important for Tennessee and the biggest game of the year.
0:58.5	We talked about trap games.
0:59.7	I'm going to give a full 1 through 12 rankings on how important these games are in terms of Tennessee in the season next year.
1:08.0	And this is just my interpretation.
1:09.5	And I would love to get your rankings on them as well. So we'll kind of get into that coming up in segments 2 and 3. And this is just my interpretation, and I would love to get your rankings on them as well.
1:11.4	So we'll kind of get into that coming up in segments two and three, and you might be surprised who's in my top four. I'm not going to lie to you. But first, we're going to talk about the spring practice thoughts from the freshman class. We talked about it earlier in the week about the transfer portal class. who's above the line, who's below the line, who can help Tennessee now,
1:28.2	who can maybe help Tennessee in the future, haven't really seen
1:30.8	enough to know yet. We're going to do that with the signing class. And of the 26 signees that
1:37.1	were on campus for Tennessee, 24 of them, or that signed with Tennessee at National Signing Day,
1:42.3	24 were early enrollees.
1:44.6	So we're going to go through the list here, above the line, below the line, who can help Tennessee,
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