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Tennessee freshman DB to redshirt for 2020 after offseason surgery
By SDS Staff
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A Tennessee freshman defensive back will have to wait a year to see regular-season. On Friday, Volunteers head coach Jeremy Pruitt told reporters that Tamarion McDonald will be redshirting in 2020 after having shoulder surgery in the offseason.
“One thing that I want to update everybody on is with Tamarion McDonald,” Pruitt said in his post-practice Friday media session. “He had shoulder surgery this summer and we elected to do that so he would be ready when we started in the winter time, so went ahead and got that done for him. With the uncertainty at that point in time during the pandemic, we felt like that that was the best thing to do, so we went ahead and done that, so he’s a guy that will definitely be redshirted this season.”
Out of Whitehaven in Memphis, Tennessee, McDonald was a 3-star prospect, rated the No. 15 recruit in the state of Tennessee for the 2020 class on the 247Sports Composite. He was originally committed to Mississippi State before pledging to Tennessee along with Whitehaven teammates Bryson Eason and Martavius French.
With the NCAA giving student-athletes a free year of eligibility, the beginning of McDonald’s window to play 4 seasons over 5 years should be delayed until 2021.
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