4-star ATH flips back to Tennessee from Ohio State, signs with Vols
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Four-star athlete Legend Bey is heading to Tennessee, after all.
The Forney, Texas, product who originally committed to Tennessee in June before flipping to Ohio State in November decided on Signing Day to flip back to Tennessee and sign with the Volunteers.
The 5-10.5, 175-pound phenom is now heading to SEC country instead of north to the defending national champions. His flip back to Knoxville was the 2nd big recruiting flip that Tennessee pulled off in a matter of moments on Signing Day, with 4-star edge rusher Carter Gooden flipping his commitment from UCLA to Tennessee.
Bey decided to join Gooden in flipping, although Gooden wasn’t originally committed to the Volunteers like Bey was. According to the 247Sports Composite rankings, Bey is the 175th-ranked player in the Class of 2026. Bey is also the 9th-ranked athlete and the 24th-ranked player from the state of Texas, according to those Composite rankings.
The Tennessee football social media account was all fired up about Bey’s flip back, celebrating the signing with this creative post:
Bey was being recruited as a quarterback toward the end of the process by SMU and West Virginia, but he ultimately decided that not only were those schools not for him, neither was Ohio State, and so he landed at the school he was first committed to.
It was only less than a month ago that Bey flipped to Ohio State, making that announcement on Nov. 10. But Tennessee didn’t quit in its pursuit of Bey, and just a few weeks later, on Signing Day, he is a Volunteer.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
