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🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tennessee Volunteers kick off spring with quarterback battles and a surging new-look defense. Is Josh Heupel’s squad raising the floor for a run at SEC glory? Eric Cain unpacks key takeaways from Tennessee’s first spring football scrimmage, spotlighting George MacIntyre’s playmaking, Faizon Brandon’s development, and DeSean Bishop’s strategic absence. Defensive backs Edrees Farooq and Dejuan Lane impress with timely interceptions, signaling Jim Knowles’ revamped defensive scheme is already ahead of schedule. On the recruiting trail, Tennessee lands versatile 2027 athlete Jaden Butler, bolstering secondary depth. Shifting gears to March Madness, Eric Cain previews the Sweet 16 showdown versus Iowa State, weighs the impact of Joshua Jefferson’s injury status, and debates whether Vols fans should root for Alabama or Michigan in the Elite Eight hunt. Don’t miss this fast-paced breakdown of Tennessee’s roster developments, recruiting momentum, and the Vols’ pursuit of back-to-back Elite Eight appearances.

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0:00.0	Josh Hyple said all the right things, but what about from the people who actually saw the scrimmage?
0:05.2	The good, the bad, the ugly.
0:07.3	Scrimmage number one for Tennessee football in spring practice.
0:15.6	You are locked on balls.
0:17.9	Your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers.
0:22.3	Part of the Locked on podcasts, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:25.8	What is up, everybody?
0:27.0	Happy Friday morning and welcome to your unofficial start to the weekend, your tailgate to get
0:31.1	started here for the weekend.
0:32.6	This is Locked on Vols, and I'm Eric Kane.
0:35.1	Today's episode is presented by the great people over at Mazda. Like our players were driven by the details. Highlights make the real, but the work behind
0:41.6	it makes it count. Stay tuned for this week's moving the game forward segment, the all-new
0:46.0	Mazda CX-5, more to every side of you. All right, so today's show, Sweet 16 matchup,
0:53.3	Tennessee and Iowa State that's coming up late, late, late tonight at 1010 Eastern or 10, whatever time it is on TV, Eastern Time.
1:02.4	So we'll dive into that matchup as well, a chance to continue on, maybe to the third straight elite eight or the season comes to a close.
1:08.9	We'll talk hoops in second number three.
1:10.6	Tennessee picks up another 2027 recruiting commit in Jaden Butler, in-state prospect that they prioritize for quite some time. But first, we start with some takeaways, things we've heard, things that Josh Heppel said from Tennessee football's spring scrimmage number one. You know, Josh Hopper got up there and he acknowledged that, you know, first of all, he liked the day.
1:29.9	He liked the work that got in by his team. He thinks his quarterbacks did a lot of good things. We'll visit some Josh Hyple comments here in a moment. It sounds like it was a good day of work, but I mean, it was a lot of the prototypical scrimmage number one stuff that we're going to overreact to and we're going to nitpick and
1:44.1	everything but at the end of the day it is literally scrimmage number one with two young
1:48.3	courts. a prototypical scrimmage number one stuff that we're going to overreact to and we're going to nitpick and everything. But at the end of the day, it is literally scrimmage number
1:47.1	one with two young quarterbacks. So it's expected. Sounds like the offense did fine. The
1:54.9	offensive line did really well. Tennessee was able to run the football effectively. Deshaun
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