I'm going to give you five Tennessee football players to watch in the Music City Bowl tomorrow,

and number one is going to be an exciting one.

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But yeah, here in Nashville covering Tennessee in the Music City Bowl, so looking forward to that.

Five Tennessee balls to watch in this Music City Bowl. We talked about storylines yesterday, kind of playing off that topic

and giving you some specific vols to be on the lookout for this week, or really today.

The Scout on Illinois, what does Illinois do well?

Who were some players to look out for?

And then Melbaugh questions all coming up here on your Tuesday lockdown vaults.

So five Tennessee volunteers to watch in the Music City Bowl.

Number one's going to be Radararius Jackson. I think he is,

of course, no Chris Brasel. So Chris Brasel's opted out going to the NFL. And that means that

Travis Smith and Radarius Jackson are going to be playing a little bit of wide receiver opposite

of Mike Matthews and, of course, Braylon Staley on the slot. But Radarie Jackson's been that guy that, you know, he was a four-star, but I think he was underranked.

I don't think that he was very hyped coming out of high school.

And all he did was come in to spring practice and impress, in fall camp and impress.

And Tennessee was very limited at the wide receiver position. And he was kind of that top backup at each of the outside spots. And then he broke his collarbone. He missed a little bit of time this year. And Travis Smith missed a little bit of time as well. But he's had a really good true freshman season. And he's on pace to step up and fill that role left behind by Chris Brasel. And you know, Tristan Keys will have something to say about that and some of these other, you know, freshmen coming in as well. But they're excited about Radarius Jackson. And I think Radius Jackson, in place of Chris Brasel, you know, can have a big time impact in this football game early. So I'm intrigued to see a little bit of Radarius Jackson. On that same note, there's a lot of young guys we're talking about here. Duane Morris, Star Thomas has been good. He started off really good to begin this season, right? He was better the first few games of the year than the last few games. But Star Thomas isn't going to be here next year. Deshaun Bishop will. DeWan Morris will. Again, transfer portal is always a thing, but DeWan Morris is going to be a big, a big time role, a bigger role in the Tennessee backfield next year, and we'll see what Tennessee does in the transfer portal. They're likely going to add a running back because you're losing Peyton Lewis, you're losing Starr. You didn't bring one in via this signing class. So you need to go out of another running

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