TRANSFER WINS: Tennessee Football SPRING EVAL | Chaz Coleman, TJ Metcalf, Amare Campbell

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🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Tennessee Volunteers football’s transfer portal overhaul pays off—are Josh Heupel’s new additions enough to push the Vols to SEC contention? Eric Cain breaks down which newcomers are “above the line” and ready to make an impact, from standout defenders like Kayin Lee and Xavier Gilliam to key offensive pieces such as Ory Williams and Trent Thomas. The analysis spotlights depth, projected starters, and emerging competition at every position, with intriguing updates on Chaz Coleman’s uncertain status and the fierce battle in Tennessee’s quarterback room. The episode also explores the American Football Coaches Association’s bold proposal for a 24-team College Football Playoff, elimination of conference championship games, and major calendar shifts—could historic programs like Tennessee benefit? Plus, Tennessee basketball makes national headlines as one of the NCAA’s biggest spenders in the transfer portal, assembling a Final Four-caliber roster. Eric Cain wraps up with SEC baseball seeding projections and what the Vols must do to secure their postseason berth.

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0:00.0	With Tennessee spring practice come and gone, we take a look back of the transfer portal class.
0:04.9	Who's above?
0:06.0	Who's below the line?
0:07.3	And it's apparent that Tennessee did a great job assembling that transfer portal class.
0:16.8	You are locked on balls.
0:19.0	Your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers. part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:26.9	Good Thursday morning, everybody. Welcome into it. Locked on balls. I am Eric Kane, Tennessee basketball among the biggest spenders in college basketball this past year in the transfer portal. We'll get into that.
0:39.2	The AFCA votes for expanded college football playoff, more regulations about the college
0:44.6	football calendar, the elimination of something very, very big at the beginning of December
0:48.2	every single year. What does that have in store? And how quickly are we to that timeline in
0:53.2	college football and the expanded
0:54.9	playoffs coming up in segment number two but first we take a look back of the transfer portal
0:58.9	class for tennessee football this past january now that spring practice has come and gone
1:03.7	who's above that line in terms of helping tennessee football who's below that line in terms
1:08.8	of not helping tennessee football and i think we can all agree that Tennessee, though, you brought in 20 plus transfers.
1:15.3	Tennessee knocked it out of the park. Could be better, no doubt, but Tennessee did a really good job addressing needs in the transfer portal.
1:21.7	So we're going to go one by one transfer portal, commit, commit, and see who had a good spring, who's going to help Tennessee, and who's not going to help Tennessee.
1:29.8	We start the conversation here with Kay and Lee.
1:32.9	Kay and Lee was the cornerback, a two and a half year starter at cornerback for Auburn in the SEC.
1:39.0	I think he's absolutely ahead of the line.
1:41.4	He's above the line, and I think he's going to help Tennessee tremendously here in the fall. In fact, I could see him being a starter. I know there's been a lot
1:50.0	of talk about Tim Merritt, Trey Potit, some of these young guys stepping up at Corner, and that's awesome,
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