Tennessee football: Five storylines to watch as fall camp begins for 2021
1. How will the new transfers make an impact?
Speaking of Joe Milton, he is one of a large number of Tennessee football players who joined the program during the summer as transfers after missing spring ball. New recruits arriving in fall camp who weren’t early enrollees is one thing. This is something totally different.
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The Vols were wrecked earlier in the year by the transfer portal. They lost key guys like Eric Gray, Wanya Morris and Key Lawrence to the Oklahoma Sooners, Henry To’o To’o to the Alabama Crimson Tide, Quavaris Crouch to the Michigan State Spartans, Jahmir Johnson to the Texas A&M Aggies and Ty Chandler to the North Carolina Tar Heels.
Other key players have since entered the portal, including Malachi Wideman, Shawn Shamburger, Greg Emerson, Martavius French and Darel Middleton. J.J. Peterson is still in there as well. Simply put, transfers were the story for UT.
Well, in the summer, Heupel went out and added talent. He got Juwan Mitchell from the Texas Longhorns, Milton and William Mohan from the Michigan Wolverines, Da’Jon Terry from the Kansas Jayhawks, JaVonta Payton from the Mississippi State Bulldogs, Brandon Turnage from Alabama, Kamal Hadden from the Auburn Tigers and Caleb Tremblay from the USC Trojans.
As a result, the Vols have a lot of new transfers, many with plenty of experience, to work with in fall camp, and this should have a huge impact on the depth chart overall. How they fit in with everything will be a huge story, as they are key to offsetting all of these losses.
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Getting hit in the transfer portal was one of the biggest stories this year surrounding Tennessee football. However, there wasn’t enough coverage around all the talent they added. The impact of that new talent could define the season, and that makes fall camp huge.