Today on Rocky Top: CFN Predictions, Freshman Receivers, Baseball Vols

Sep 5, 2015; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers fans flies the United States flag and the Volunteer flag prior to the game against the Bowling Green Falcons at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 5, 2015; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers fans flies the United States flag and the Volunteer flag prior to the game against the Bowling Green Falcons at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports /
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Freshman wide receivers, College Football News’s predictions on Tennessee, and baseball Volunteers lead the news on Rocky Top for Monday, July 18, 2016.


It’s Monday everybody. As the awful news in 2016 continues, we here at All for Tennessee are doing our best to try to provide you with some sort of distraction by covering Vols athletics. But we understand things are very tumultuous right now in our nation and in our world, and we want to say that any victims of violence are in our thoughts.

Now, onto the sports world.

SEC Media Days is over, and that means that now we are just counting down the days until the beginning of the Tennessee Football season.

There’s plenty of news surrounding Butch Jones and the Vols, but locked in the heat of the summer, we’ve also got some other news for you.

Let’s start with football first.

CFN Picks the Vols to Go 11-1 – Collegefootballnews.com

"2016 SEC football schedules and preseason predictions. Picking every game for every team and what’s going to happen this season."

Vols freshman receivers making a ‘statement’ – Patrick Brown of Chattanooga Times Free Press

"While they have yet to complete their first official collegiate practice, Tennessee’s quartet of freshman wide receivers already are impressing some of their older teammates.That’s a positive offseason development for the Volunteers.With limited numbers and production returning at the position, Tennessee likely will need first-season contributions from Tyler Byrd, Marquez Callaway, Brandon Johnson and Latrell Williams, and based on the early reviews of those summer arrivals, they’re aware they’ll be needed."

Vols in baseball update – Wes Rucker of 247Sports

"Nineteen former Tennessee baseball players are representing the Vols at the professional level.Here’s an update on the way all of them are performing this season, courtesy of the Tennessee sports information department."