Tennessee Football 2026 Recruiting Updates, Tristen Keys Comps & Faizon Brandon Update With 247Sports' Andrew Ivins
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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On today's program, Chase is joined by 247sports' Andrew Ivins to talk about Tennessee's 2026 football recruiting class, Ty Redmond's freshman season thus far, Tristen Keys comps, Mike Matthews and Boo Carter questions, Salesi Moa as a prospect, Legend Bey is a running back, Faizon Brandon, and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Andrew Ivins
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate it. I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:08.7 | All right. Welcome back. Chase Thomas podcast. Andrew Ivins, 247 sports director of scouting is here. |
| 0:16.8 | Andrew, we still got a couple months here before early National Signing Day, but a lot of Tennessee's 2026 class done. Now we're having to learn 27 names, 28 names, and it's just, I mean, Cooper went into the world and we continue to get older and older. Like the new names you see pop up and you're like, that can't be right. That's not Noel Devine that's not that's not where we're at but that's |
| 0:38.0 | where we're at we got to be prepared for the next wave right yeah noel divine junior uh devon esther's |
| 0:44.5 | kid uh in 2030 uh the classic 2030 hopefully i'm not doing this at that point but uh who knows |
| 0:51.7 | yeah i mean it's uh it's it's pretty crazy i mean who's the biggest who is |
| 0:56.5 | your first like you were when you're recruiting days where you saw the name and you were like |
| 1:00.9 | oh i'm getting up there in age this is who i think it is i think it's that next way um that i guess |
| 1:08.4 | these kids would be in in school, like Noel Devine. |
| 1:11.1 | I mean, he's got one of the greatest highlight types of all time. |
| 1:16.0 | You could put Devin Hester in there as well. |
| 1:18.1 | So I think those two, you know, Vernel Brown at Florida, the freshman receiver, |
| 1:24.2 | like I remember his dad returning punts for the Gators and then you know you're watching uF this |
| 1:30.7 | season and he's out there making plays and he looks like just like dad in the return game so |
| 1:35.1 | he's another one I joked with his dad about that I'm like I remember when I was like a young |
| 1:41.8 | boy watching you suited up on on Saturdays. Back when it was like Jefferson Pilot Sports that was doing the SEC games. I missed that. They should bring back Jefferson Pilot Sports for one game. I mean, there's just, there was something, if you weren't there for it, you have no idea the kids today. They have no idea what it was like to get Vanderbilt, South Carolina on Jefferson Pilot Sports. Like, it was just a different deal. It was nice. It was a great start to your day because it's at noon. It's comfortable. You ease into the college football day. You ease into the 330 CBS game. It's just nice. Jefferson Pilot Sports. It's a good hang. But I need to bring it back, maybe like a throwback week or something. |
| 2:19.7 | That would really age us, though. |
| 2:21.5 | 100%. |
| 2:22.1 | There was, I'll always regret not pulling the trigger. |
| 2:24.3 | I found like a vintage Jefferson Pilot Sports like hat a couple years ago on eBay. |
| 2:29.8 | And I like, do I do it? |
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