This Week on Rocky Top for July 6-12

New feature here on the blog, a weekly round-up of items here and elsewhere around Vol Nation. For example, I’d like to post more here on the blog, but I don’t want to flood your email, so I’m not going to push smaller posts like our recruiting profiles through email, but rather quietly post them to the blog and include them in this weekly round-up. Like these:

There was also Part 2 of The Tennessee Playbook series, looking at short-yardage and goal-to-go situations:

The Tennessee Playbook, Part 2: Short-Yardage Situations

Also, over on YouTube, I posted a new video highlighting every havoc play made by James Pearce in his career so far:

Elsewhere in the Volsphere

• Speaking of James Pearce, he was named one of the Top 10 players in the upcoming CFB 25 game:

• Four-star DE Chandavian Bradley left Tennessee and enrolled at Hutchison CC in Kansas. It is unclear why Bradley left, but some tweets from his mother made it sound like there was certainly no animosity about it.

• In baseball news, Garett Crochet became the first former Vol named a MLB All-Star since Yan Gomes in 2018.

• The other baseball news for the week was Tony Vitello absolutely owning the transfer portal.

  

  Links to each of these players’ profiles at their old schools and their stats page at baseball-reference.com:

  • P Tanner Franklin (commitment | profile | stats)

  • INF Gavin Kilen (commitment | profile | stats)

  • 1B/OF Eric Rataczak (commitment | profile | stats)

  • 3B/DH Andrew Fischer (commitment | profile | stats)

  • P Liam Doyle (commitment | profile | stats)