Tennessee football: 10 major revelations from Vols start of spring practice

4. Jordan Allen has moved from outside linebacker to tight end.

Back in 2018, Jordan Allen was a four-star junior college transfer who committed to Tennessee football as an outside linebacker. He was one of the early splashes in Jeremy Pruitt’s first class. However, in two years, he didn’t do much there. Allen couldn’t move past Deandre Johnson, Kivon Bennett and especially Darrell Taylor during his first year.

This past year, Allen was out most of the time due to injury. Now, though, it looks like he is moving over to tight end. In the process, he is moving to a position where the Vols picked up another four-star junior college transfer in Pruitt’s first class, Dominick Wood-Anderson. With Wood-Anderson gone, however, this position is open for new talent, and Allen could fit that mold.

Sure, Princeton Fant and Austin Pope are veterans at tight end. Sean Brown, Jackson Lowe and Jacob Warren are also scholarship guys who bring a lot of hype for the future. But there is no proven receiving tight end yet, and Allen, who has experience playing receiver and tight end, could fill that role going forward. At 6’4″ 241 pounds, he could certainly be a major threat.

Anyway, we don’t know what this means for Allen as he enters his redshirt senior season. What’s clear, though, is this is his final chance to make an impact on Rocky Top. Pope is also a redshirt senior, and Fant is a redshirt junior. So Allen moving over there brings even more veteran leadership to the position.