PAID: Former Tennessee Football STARS Alontae Taylor and Cade Mays CASH IN with NFL Free Agency

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🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Former Tennessee football stars Alontae Taylor and Cade Mays have signed new contracts in NFL free agency, cashing in with new deals. Taylor is coming home to Nashville with the Titans for $60 million and $42 million guaranteed while Mays is headed to the Lions for $14 million guaranteed. What makes them so great and what signs early on during the recruiting process and at Tennessee did fans see that they would make it big? What other NFLs could be next to get paid in the NFL?

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0:00.0	VFL's Cade Mays and Alante Taylor, whoo, they just got paid.
0:09.6	You are Locked on Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers,
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0:48.8	About 12 to 15 minutes or so, Alante Taylor, Cade Mays, they got paid.
0:54.8	Paid. NFL free agency, one of the fun, one of the more intriguing times of the season.
1:00.5	Most fun that NFL fans have is the NFL free agency frenzy where you got a couple of days here in mid-March where things just get crazy.
1:08.2	And obviously, Josh Havels put out a lot of players in the National Football League. Tennessee is an NFL factory, always has been. And obviously, Josh Hippel's put out a lot of players in the National Football League.
1:11.6	Tennessee is an NFL factory, always has been.
1:14.3	And two Josh Hypo players, former Josh Hypo players who were here in the early years of Josh
1:19.1	Heippel here at Tennessee, just got big time contracts on the move in the National Football League.
1:23.8	That is Alante Taylor going from the New Orleans Saints to your Tennessee Titans
1:28.1	and Cade Mays going from the Carolina Panthers to the Detroit Lions. Let's start with
1:32.9	Alante Taylor, shall we? Our first, a little overview of both of these guys. Bill Martin putting
1:38.3	out of appreciation. Bill Martin, the great sports information director for Tennessee football.
1:43.0	He tweeted the other day, great to see ball football.
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