Tennessee Football Adds Wide receiver Amari Jefferson from Transfer Portal: Impact for Vols, Josh Heupel

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Can the Tennessee Volunteers football team overcome their slow start in the transfer portal to make fans happy? With former Alabama wide receiver Amari Jefferson's recent transfer, the Volunteers are reshaping their position room and aiming for explosive growth. This episode features Eric Cain, Matt Ray and Josh Ward as they dissect the impact of Jefferson's addition, analyze the running back position for 2025, and discuss the strategic adjustments needed for Tennessee's offense. Key running backs like Dylan Sampson, DeSean Bishop, and Peyton Lewis are spotlighted, while the coaching staff's tactics come under scrutiny. The conversation also touches on the implications of transfer portal departures and how they might affect the team's depth. Tune in to discover how the Volunteers plan to enhance their offensive strategies and what it means for their future success. 0:00 Intro 5:29 Amari Jefferson's high school career 11:07 Dylan Sampson's impact on Tennessee 16:43 Running back depth for 2025 23:33 Tim Banks' potential departure 29:41 Outro

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0:00.0	Tennessee picked up a transfer portal edition, finally, and wide receiver Amari Jefferson.
0:04.6	What is Tennessee getting in Amari Jefferson, the former Baylor School standout?
0:09.0	That and a whole lot more, it is your Wednesday, Locked On Balls.
0:17.3	You are Locked On Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:27.1	What is up, everybody? Welcome into it. This is your Wednesday additional Lockdown Balls. I'm your host, Eric Kane. Can't thank you enough for being here and can thank our friends over at Fandual enough for being a part of the show. You can get $5.
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0:46.8	Got a busy show coming up today.
0:48.2	Matt Ray is going to chime in on the commitment of Amari Jefferson here in just a moment, just a little brief comment.
0:53.5	We're going to have him on the show tomorrow to talk more of Tennessee football and recruiting in 2026.
0:58.3	Going to take a look at the running backs for the 2025 position room in segment two and then catch up with Josh Ward, Ward Wednesday, in segment number three.
1:06.9	All right. So Amari Jefferson, yeah, this has kind of been in the works for the last couple of days.
1:11.2	And, you know, Tennessee came up, was runner up for Amari Jefferson out of high school in the class of 2024, Baylor School in the Chattanooga area.
1:20.1	Amory Jefferson wanted to play for Nick Saban. Okay. And it's like he couldn't turn down the commitment, couldn't turn down the opportunity to play for Nick Saban.
1:28.1	Well, he signs and then, you know, he and I mean, it's not just him.
1:31.1	The rest of that signing class is kind of, you know, up a creek without a paddle, right?
1:34.8	Because Nick Saban goes ahead and retires.
1:36.2	And that's just the nature of the business and the beast.
1:38.1	And it's an unfortunate for those guys. But, you know, Marie Jefferson, sure, wanted to go to Alabama and all that. Want to play for Nick Saban. Nick Saban is gone.
1:44.5	So he stays in the program for a year.
1:46.7	He red shirts.
1:47.5	He doesn't play much.
1:48.6	He did suffer an injury.
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