Today On Rocky Top: Five-Star QB Commits To Vols

From The Times Free Press

"Tennessee’s football program continued its trend of landing big-time quarterback prospects on Sunday.The Volunteers may have landed their biggest prize at the position yet for its 2017 class.Hunter Johnson, rated the nation’s No. 1 rising junior quarterback by both 247sports and Rivals, pulled the trigger and committed to Tennessee on Sunday afternoon.The 6-foot-3, 197-pounder out of Brownsburg (Indiana) High School picked the Vols over Notre Dame and North Carolina State, and he had scholarship offers from Oklahoma, Florida, North Carolina, Nebraska, Missouri, Penn State, Miami and others.Read more at The Times Free Press"

From The Tennessean

"For the first time since 2008, Tennessee will begin the season ranked in the AP Top 25 poll.The Vols are slotted at No. 25 in the preseason poll, which was released Sunday. Tennessee has the same ranking in the USA Today Amway Coaches Poll.Eight SEC teams are included in the AP Top 25, more than any other conference, led by Alabama at No. 3. Ohio State was unanimously voted to the top spot.Read more at The Tennessean"

From 247Sports

"Darrin Kirkland Jr. has humbly but firmly said he knows his role as a middle linebacker, and Tennessee’s highly touted freshman has said he won’t be hesitant to bark out signals to the front seven anytime he’s on the field with the first-team defense — which might happen, considering he’s still battling junior Kenny Bynum and sophomore Colton Jumper for that starting spot.Read more at 247Sports"