Tennessee Football 2026 Recruiting + Strengths of Travis Smith, Amari Jefferson & Vols Wide Receivers

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What’s Tennessee football’s 2026 recruiting class looking like? With a focus on the 2025 and 2026 recruiting classes, this episode explores the potential game-changing impact of players like quarterback Nico Iamaliava and wide receiver Amari Jefferson. The discussion, featuring insights from Matt Ray of Volquest, highlights Tennessee's strategic approach to player development and the evolving landscape of college football recruiting. Listeners will gain valuable insights into the performance of Tennessee's 2024 freshmen, including Mike Matthews and Boo Carter, and the promising outlook for the 2025 class. The analysis also covers the 2023 quarterback class, emphasizing the role of the transfer portal and the importance of nurturing talent beyond initial rankings. Nico Iamaleava is standing tall as the best quarterback of the loaded cycle. Tune in for an engaging exploration of the Tennessee Volunteers' path to success and discover how these recruiting efforts could reshape the future of college football. 0:00 Intro 5:38 Analyzing young talent in Tennessee's receiver room 11:01 Standout freshmen performances in 2024 season 18:32 Looking ahead to 2026 recruiting class 24:09 Revisiting Nico and the quarterback class of 2023

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0:00.0	We continue the recruiting conversation here on a Thursday lockdown balls.
0:03.4	Will 2026 be the best class Josh Heppel has recruited?
0:06.8	And let's look back at the quarterback class of 2023.
0:11.1	Where does Nico stand in that loaded quarterback class?
0:14.2	A couple years later.
0:15.0	That more, it's Locktown Balls.
0:32.2	You are locked on balls. You are lockeded On Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:34.5	Hey, everybody, welcome into Thursday Locked On Falls.
0:39.9	I am Eric Kane, so happy to have you guys here along for the ride, making Locked On Balls, your first watch each and every single day every dayers couldn't do the show without you you guys know it we are free and available
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0:55.3	Got a fun show coming up. I'm going to, I had planned to have Matt Ray on the show yesterday,
1:00.0	but with the news of Amari Jefferson committing to Tennessee out of the transfer portal,
1:03.6	thought I would just get a quick little snippet of him on Jefferson to play on yesterday's show
1:07.5	and then record a bigger segment on recruiting here for today.
1:10.7	So Matt Ray is going to join us here for a little extended period in segments one and two
1:14.5	to discuss Tennessee recruiting and what's going on in that world.
1:19.4	And then in segment number three, I've kind of teased this conversation.
1:22.7	I think we've done it before a couple months ago.
1:24.6	But I understand everybody wants perfection.
1:27.3	Everybody wants, everybody wants perfection. Everybody wants
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