2017 TE prospect commits to Tennessee shortly after receiving scholarship offer
By Jason Hall
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Tennessee received a commitment from unranked 2017 tight end prospect James Brown Sunday.
Brown announced he received an offer from the Vols Sunday night and confirmed his commitment hours later. He is currently listed as a “hard commit” on his 247Sports recruiting profile.
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Tennessee was the first major-conference program to offer Brown a scholarship. The former high school quarterback who converted to tight end this season told 247Sports he grew up a Vols fan because of his uncle and said it was always his goal to play for them.
“This is my dream school, since I was little. I pretty much made it official as soon as they offered me,” Brown said. “Since I was little, my uncle, it was just that team. He had a favorite team. I didn’t have a favorite team. But I used to watch them, and I used to go wherever he used to go. I started researching them, and I looked into their tradition that they had at the school, how much they used to win and how good they were back then. And I was like, ‘I’m going to play for them.’ But it was just a dream. I was like, ‘That might not happen.’
“But as I got through high school and I started realizing what kind of athlete I was, I was like, ‘I’m going to try to make this a reality.’ And I made it a reality today.”
Brown currently ranks No. 22 overall in the Orlando Sentinel‘s 2017 Central Florida Super60. He provides Tennessee with its 26th known commitment and second tight end for the 2017 class following three-star prospect Chase Rogers.
Jason covers SEC football for Saturday Down South.
