Football Recruiting

Harrison Smith starred at Catholic High School then at Notre Dame and stood out as a rookie safety this season for the Minnesota Vikings.

News Sentinel reporter Evan Woodbery (@TennesseeBeat) is the only media traveling with Butch Jones and members of his staff on the Vols' post-National Signing Day tour of Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville. Follow the events of the day through his Tweets.

MEMPHIS -- Three people got standing ovations during the first stop on Tennessee's three-city post-Signing Day tour. Butch Jones was one. Former UT receiver Stanley Morgan was another. But Jones set up a recently signed Memphis prospect for the loudest ...

Barely two months into his Tennessee tenure, Butch Jones is getting a crash course on life in the SEC.

Vonn Bell knew his choice was going to ruffle some feathers, but in making the biggest decision of his life the Ridgeland High School five-star football recruit did the most basic of things.

KNOXVILLE — For just the second time since he became the Tennessee football coach on Dec. 7 of last year, Butch Jones will return to his Cincinnati home Friday to spend some long overdue quality time with his wife Barbara ...

A 31-day, whirlwind recruiting race left Tennessee's new football coaching staff looking forward to a longer race. And they won't have to wait for the start.

When Tyler Bray left Tennessee a year early for the NFL draft, he also left the Vols with just two scholarship quarterbacks on the current roster.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Butch Jones hasn't coached his first game at Tennessee yet, but he already has received his first taste of the rough-and-tumble world of Southeastern Conference football.

Tennessee coach Butch Jones needed to quickly assemble a class of recruits in his first two months on the job. But he didn’t want to ease his standards.

University of Tennessee football coach Butch Jones will address the media regarding the events of National Signing Day at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6. News Sentinel reporter Evan Woodbery will be live tweeting as things unfold

Tennessee stole four-star quarterback Joshua Dobbs from Arizona State on National Signing Day, but lost a key target when five-star safety Vonn Bell chose to sign with Ohio State.

Watch this page for the latest list of 2013 Tennessee football signees. Tennessee beat writer Evan Woodbery has a brief snapshot look at each Tennessee signee. We are also working closely with our recruiting site, govols247, to bring you the ...

The skinny on Malik Brown

After staying committed to Arizona State for almost eight months, Joshua Dobbs changed his mind just in time for signing day.