Football

KNOXVILLE — Though he's a 6-foot-6, 323-pound offensive tackle, Ja'Wuan James exudes an unassuming personality.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M’s Kyle Field will become the largest stadium in the Southeastern Conference after university regents approved a $450 million redevelopment plan.

The father of Tyler Bray said his son is “very excited’’ about signing a free agent contract with the Kansas City Chiefs, but Jeff Bray couldn’t mask his disappointed over the former Tennessee quarterback going undrafted when he was projected ...

It wasn’t a bad spring by any means for Tennessee’s defense. In many ways it seemed to go very well.

Tennessee announced a one-year contract extension and $50,000 retention bonus for athletic director Dave Hart on Monday, locking up the university’s top athletic department executive through Sept. 18, 2018.

The SEC is seeking out new bowl partners to replace the Cotton Bowl and the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, commissioner Mike Slive said Monday during a conversation with sports reporters and editors at the APSE Southeast Regional meeting.

For most of the Tennessee football players embarking on their professional future, the NFL draft couldn’t have gone much better.

KNOXVILLE — The University of Tennessee might not have made the biggest splash in December when it hired Cincinnati's Butch Jones as its new football coach.

Rivera was selected by the Oakland Raiders Saturday in the sixth round of the NFL draft. He was the 184th overall selection.

Defensive tackle Montori Hughes, whose brief tenure at Tennessee ended unhappily, is on his way to the NFL.

Thomas, a 6-foot-5, 300 pound native of Baton Rouge, La., who played both guard and tackle in college, started the final 37 games of his college career.

Hunter was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the second round of the NFL draft with the No. 34 overall pick. Hunter followed teammate Cordarrelle Patterson, who was selected Thursday night by the Minnesota Vikings, by only five picks.

Tennessee football fans hoping that former Vol wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson's selection by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of Thursday's NFL Draft might give the Vols some recruiting buzz got an extra bump on Friday morning.

Mike Vollmar, a Michigan native who spent three years in football administration at Alabama, has been hired as Tennessee’s new senior associate athletic director in charge of football.

Tennessee football coach Butch Jones teleconference in which he discusses the Orange and White spring game this past Saturday.