Touted D.C. safety commits to Tennessee
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🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from the Fort Rucker Sun Room Alternate Studio) and Ryan Callahan (from somewhere else) convened through the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss Washington D.C. safety prospect Mordecai McDaniel’s commitment to Tennessee on Wednesday.
McDaniel — the nation’s No. 410 overall prospect in the industry-generated 247Sports Composite, and the nation’s No. 385 overall prospect according to 247Sports analysts — had a long, impressive offer list and ultimately chose the Vols over SEC Eastern Division rival Florida and Penn State.
It’s been a busy and productive stretch for Tennessee on the recruiting trail, and the 6-foot-1, 195-pound McDaniel is another major addition to the 2020 class. His combination of speed and power and his impressive film against quality competition makes him a big for Jeremy Pruitt and his staff.
Why has Tennessee been so productive in the Beltway/DMV area in this recruiting cycle? What kind of prospect in McDaniel? Is he an instant-impact player? What does his commitment mean for the Vols’ 2020 priorities moving forward? Those are the main talking points in this breaking-news episode.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. What's up y'all? Welcome on into the GoValls 24-7 podcast West Rucker Ryan Callahan |
| 0:17.8 | here and if you know what's up by now you know because of this shorter intro that we have breaking |
| 0:23.4 | news for y'all Ryan Callahan joining me are recruiting editor govalls 24 7.com and |
| 0:28.8 | Ryan why are we telling people that we have a breaking news podcast right now? |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, we've been doing a lot of these lately, it seems like Tennessee building some |
| 0:37.0 | momentum on the recruiting trail and no different today. |
| 0:40.4 | The second time in less than a week, Devals, I made a big addition to their 2020 recruiting class, |
| 0:44.6 | this time adding three-star safety, Mordecai McDaniel |
| 0:48.0 | of Washington, D.C. |
| 0:49.3 | A big time target that Tennessee had been after for a long time, and Tennessee beating out some big competition for him too. It came down to the |
| 0:56.5 | Vols, Florida and Penn State after he took official visits to those three schools along |
| 1:01.6 | with Notre Dame over the past five months or so. |
| 1:05.2 | So Tennessee addressing the secondary again. |
| 1:08.1 | We've seen them do a pretty good job there, especially at the safety spot with Kish Sean Lawrence a top 100 prospect already in the class |
| 1:15.8 | an in-state player from from Nashville and now pairing him up with Mordecai McDaniel that |
| 1:21.1 | that's a couple of really good players at Tennessee really coveted in this |
| 1:24.4 | 20 class and going up to DC to land a guy like that and win a big time recruiting battle. Again, another |
| 1:31.5 | good sign for the Vols and another big piece to add to this |
| 1:34.4 | class going into the season with with Tennessee now up to 15 commitments and |
| 1:38.1 | really starting to I think piece things together to the to the point that people can now kind of see |
| 1:45.0 | that this is going to be a better class than certainly people were thinking it might be just |
| 1:51.5 | just a few weeks ago really with the things being a little bit |
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