Tennessee sees veteran linebacker enter the transfer portal, per report
By Keith Farner
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Morven Joseph entered his second season at Tennessee looking to build on a 2020 season where he appeared in all 10 games, and made 2 tackles.
Joseph was an outside linebacker/edge rusher for the first half of the 2020 season and then moved to inside linebacker late in the year. This season, he played in 2 games with one sack. On Monday, the Knoxville News-Sentinal reported that the 6-foot-2, 215-pound linebacker has entered the transfer portal. He hasn’t played since the Tennessee Tech game on Sept. 18.
Joseph hails from Lake Gibson High School in Lakeland, Florida.
During fall camp, linebackers coach Brian Jean-Mary discussed Joseph’s role with the team.
“Morven has been with us at the inside linebacker spot, and we have some specific packages where we’re going to try to use him as a pass rusher because we feel like he does that really well,” Jean-Mary said, per Vols Wire. “His big thing is that he’s another guy that was an edge guy in high school. He’s learned to play stack linebacker because it’s a difference and you’re more read and react. When you’re an edge guy, you’re more react and read. Right now, he’s still trying to learn what to do as far as the stack linebacker. He’s been really good through our first six practices. ‘MoJo’ is an interesting player to evaluate because he’s such a good athlete that sometimes he might look like it’s taking a little while to process, but when you look at it, he’s getting there faster than other people because he’s such a good athlete.”
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
