Two more defensive transfer portal editions for the University of Tennessee, and one could be a massive one.

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Fangio. Got a fun show coming up. A couple of defensive transfer portal commits that we're

going to discuss here on the show. One was, I guess it was, I guess it was, good days mixed up.

I guess it was Monday night. The other one was Tuesday morning. And so that's exciting.

Defensive roster breakdown.

Who's coming?

Who's going?

Who's been retained?

Kind of what's each position group look like in terms of the numbers that's coming up in segment two.

And a question that we'll ponder towards the end of the show, I understand there's angst.

I understand there's frustration.

But should we give Josh Heippel the benefit of the doubt when he comes to quarterbacks? I think we should, and I'll explain coming up later on in the show. All right, so Tennessee's first transfer portal edition, we're going to speak on as Jordan Norman, the first of two. Jordan Norman, the two-lane edge, committed to Tennessee on Monday night, and it was followed up by Michigan Safety T.J. Medcalf, Edge committed to Tennessee on Monday night and it was followed up by Michigan Safety

T.J. Metcalfe who committed the Tennessee like at 8.30 in the morning on, I guess about

8.45 in the morning on Tuesday morning. First, let's go with Norman. I like Norman. I think

this is an underrated get. You look at a transfer portal ranking. It's not very high, okay? But this is a guy that is, it sounds like Chris Collinsworth. Here's a guy. This is a guy that is 6 foot 4, 250 pounds, very productive at the group of 5 level, you know, with 2ane. 28 tackles, career high this best year.

Eight TFLs career high this best year.

Six sacks career high this past year.

Again, he had 25 tackles, four TFLs, two and a half sacks in 2024 with South Alabama.

And as a freshman in just three games, redshirt freshman, I guess, or his redshirt year in

23 with South Alabama, he had a sack and a half as well. He was a three-star rated prospect

coming out of high school. That's primarily why he landed at Tulane. Career high, 447 snaps as a

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