Tennessee LB, top tackler in 2023, entering transfer portal
Tennessee LB Elijah Herring has played his last down with the Volunteers.
Herring took to social media on Monday to announce that he is entering his name into the NCAA transfer portal. The portal’s spring window for undergraduate entry opens this week.
“I’d like to thank Coach (Josh) Heupel and the University of Tennessee for the opportunity to play in my home state,” Herring wrote in a post to his X account. “I appreciate all the support from the entire staff, my teammates and fans. I have decided to enter the transfer portal and pursue other college opportunities. Love The Vols!”
Herring, from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, arrived on Rocky Top in January 2022. He has two seasons of remaining eligibility.
Herring was Vols’ top tackler in 2023
Herring was a reserve linebacker and special teams contributor in 2022 as a freshman. He had a breakout sophomore season, taking on a starting role at middle linebacker.
Herring was Tennessee’s top tackler in 2023, posting 80 stops, including 4 TFLs. On the surface, it might seem alarming for UT to lose its tackle leader, but there’s more to the situation.
Last year, Herring stepped up after Keenan Pili was lost to an injury. With Pili set to return, Herring’s status isn’t as clear.
UT insider Austin Price shared on social media that Herring wants to be a starter. He feels that opportunity is somewhere other than UT.
Because Elijah wants to start and his path to starting was much more cloudy here. Great kid. https://t.co/5nn8nJ4IvO
— Austin Price (@AustinPriceless) April 16, 2024
With Herring’s starting experience and 2023 production, Tennessee would have obviously preferred to have held onto him for depth (assuming he would not start).
The fact that Herring feels like he was not going to be a starter, though, is a sign that the Vols are looking good at the position with Pili’s return.
Give him credit he tried but dude was lost as last years Easter egg. Always out of position. He got recruited over. Good luck
So UT’s top tackler was lost and always out of position????
Do the hillbillies have a DC?
Still scarred from those 1980 comments for all those years? Let it go dude
1998
A quarter of a century ago! And, stating “1998” doesn’t capture the complete and utter irrelevance of UT football since 1998.
Did UT even win an SECE Division Tittle after 1998?
They’re both scared, and scarred SEC123…just remember, these guys were second fiddle to Tennessee for virtually the history of the game!
They have taken Florida’s place as the “Flavor of the Week” team that has some recent success, but not enough class or integrity to knock how to live with it.
To him it’s irrelevant that UGA needed the worst 15 year stretch in Tennessee history to pass us in the head to head series.! And yet they like to use the same period to say Tennessee is no longer relevant.
What’s really going on is they’re just afraid of those footsteps coming round the corner.
What’s the overall series record again?
Gabriel_RTR lol you all are like desperate Hookers trying to convince the clientele that your a storied program. 3 natties to your name and two of them came during a world demic.lol. Since that ended, so have your title runs.. lol. It took 17 years and 5 bad coaches just for UGA to catch up in the series. UGA is what they appear to be, a 5 year flash in the pan demic team that got plenty of help avoiding good teams in the regular season.. Who throws two picks in a Spring game and how many facemasks did you all have.. in that same Spring game? LOL But you all sure showed us what’s possible and how you can win a title when most college teams suffered lots of optouts. lol Respect lol
@volman, you do realize that every program has ‘ups and downs,’ right? just as you want to declare that it took tn’s worst 15-yr stretch for the uga to overtake tn football in notoriety and the head to head match-up, a dawg fan can also easily point to the worst 10-yr stretch in their program’s history from 1989 – 1999, of which of no coincidence was when tn went on a 9-0 run in the series.
man-up….or read a little more about the rivalry and history of the two programs. both have had down years, but it’s uga that’s ahead in the head to head match-up, ahead in the all time wins list in cfb, ahead in east div crowns, ahead in sec titles….
Lots of words GWhite, but no answer. What is the record?
Lots of pissy bad mouthed comments on here. Is this the winning way to post? Very little said about football.
Love all the bandwagon dog fans on here
lol, okie dokie
UGA D this year looks like they couldn’t stop HS team on G-Day, and it never improved after halftime. Herring only got the chance to play last year because of how many injuries TN had. Had those injuries had not taken place at the position, Herring would not have started. Yes, he was lined up wrong and accounted for many penalties. Great heart, did his best but buried on the depth chart.
gwhite. You are favorite TinRSee dumb@ss
TDOW…Heup cares less about the “D”.
His philosophy is “We’ll outscore ’em.”
The best tackler was always lost? You should read that a few times and then realize how stupid you are.
lol, first hillbilly comment out of the gate “dude was lost …always out of position”
Herring may have been UT’s top tackler but they don’t need him, you know with that fearsome and mighty Orange Sherbet defense that UT puts on the field.
He could be both
When you don’t need someone, it’s called being buried down the depth chart. He was never going to start at TN unless injuries made that possible and it did. But he wasn’t elite, never fully grasped how to stay disciplined when lining up and movement. Not elite speed but good made some plays. Our ground D made your look silly last year via stats. We have the best run D in the SEC. Where was yours ranked? lol
TinRSee will lose a game and gwhite will disappear under her rock for a few weeks. Fish spine.
I don’t know if he was always out of position or not but he was not going to be a starter with Pili back and Carter with a year of experience. And it sounds like he was passed in spring practice by Telander as well, and if the spring game is any indication it appears that Spillman may have passed him as well so he was possibly looking at not being in the 2 deep or sharing playing time at best… Anywho wish him luck he’s a local Tennessee guy and should be a solid starter if he finds the right situation…
he was a good player but got burned over and over on those short little tosses to the RB’s. Hate to lose him but volfanincandyland is right he got buried in the depth chart. When you lose a good player like that because he wasnt going to get the playing time, it is a good sign of the quality of the LB room. The overall D will likely be better this season and they were not bad last season.
Tdub acts like GU wasnt lost in the abyss for 40 years before kirby came along. we still havent gotten anywhere close to as long without a natty as GU did. Poor GU fans they were without one for so long they forgot how to act.
He’s probably not even a GA fan or a bandwagon fan at best. If you notice he doesn’t actually discuss football he just comes on Tennessee articles to troll behind an anonymous screen name, if that tells you anything about the type of person he is..
Anywho I do recall him getting burned over and over in that Missouri game
It’s just what your $#!++y defense did fnckhead
Dude, your defense on Saturday was the worst defense anyone saw on Saturday. Slow lobs into the endzone, slow backs out of position and place. Time and time again, no secondary. After haltime, no secondary D. lol. You all got rightfully clowned for it..lol Sorry, “girl” but your rona run was fun but it was done after the 22 season.. You’ll be lucky to go 9-3. You got TN, Bama, Texas, AU and Ole Miss this year. NO way you don’t lose at least 2 of those games.. Your 0 and a lifetime whenever you have to play more than 2 or 3 top ten teams in a regular season lol.
RTR trying so hard to get in the club with tdub but as you can see he doesnt have enough brainpower to even be a troll. Get back under that bridge RTR and dont come out until you can write a full paragraph of trolling insults you ignorant wretch.
Gabriel = bandwagon fan
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lol, another Hillbilly comment about UGA winning 3 National Championships since 1980 and that is somehow worse than UT being a non-factor for 25 years and UT being the laughing stock of the SEC and college football:
Fat Phil tried to turn Bama in for cheating – pot meet kettle (or pot-bellied coach meet kettle)
The Fulmer Cup
Fat Phil fired
Coaches walking off the job – Kiffin
Dooley hired, fired and paid off
Greg Schiano hired but offer rescinded after some hillbilly students painted a rock
Brick-by-Brick Butch hired
UT police cover up co-ed r@pes by UT players.
Non-criminal UT players beat by criminal UT players, forced to transfer out of the program
Brick-by-Brick Butch fired and paid off (this after Butch and UT were going to win the SECE)
Who got Brick-by-Brick Butch’s Mercedes-Benz, gull-wing doors, $200K SLS recruiting-p1mp-ride after he was fired???
Fat Phil hired again
Taterhead Pruitt hired
The turnover tr@sh can running up and down UT’s sideline
Taterhead Pruitt sporting the greatest Wuhan Flu shemagh ever known to mankind on UT’s sideline
The Happy Meals
Taterhead Pruitt fired and paid-off (this after Pruitt and UT were going to win the SECE)
Fat Phil sent to the glue factory again
Skinny Boy Josh hired
Skinny Boy Josh and UT going to win a Natty, they beat an injury riddled Bama for the first time in 65 years!!!!!!!!!
Skinny Boy Josh and UT got dirt stomped by King Kirby and the Dawgs
Skinny Boy Josh and UT are the best 1-loss team in college football, going to make the CFP and beat UGA in a rematch
Skinny Boy Josh and UT curb stomped by USCar, SEC records fall.
USCar just scored again
Joe Milton, strongest arm in the World, is going to win the Heisman, beat UGA and win the SECE
Skinny Boy Josh just hoping and praying Brent Venables slips up and Oklahoma fires him
Did I miss anything Jethro?
Only all the facts.
UGA has never been good when TN and or UF was.
UGA has played schedules of the regular season ranked in the 70’s. for the past, what 5 years.
UGA on averaged only played Bama once every 6 years.
UGA has never won anything when they’ve had to play 2, 3 or more top 10 teams in a regular season.
UGA has had rushing offenses ranked in the 40’s and 50’s over Monken’s title years at UGA.
UGA is the only natty winner to ever to have failed to score an offensive point on a foe in that same natty season.
UGA played the lowest caliber team in a national title game, ever. TCU who didn’t even win their conference.
UGA has only been good at two points in history. Two seasons in the 80 and since 17. 3 national titles only one over 100 year span and two during a worldwide demic
UGA 1 WR drafted in the last 4 drafts.
UGA 1 QB drafted in the last, how many drafts and currently that QB has been let go from his NFL team.
TN’s NFL drafts went sooner than UGA’s in the last draft.
UGA’s top potential draft this year won’t be drafted in the first round, as per NFL mock drafts and that player is only a TE which the NFL considers, not a high rookie contract position.
UGA trailed in at least 7 first halves last season. SC included.. lol
UGA keeps losing QB recruits. How do you lose Dylan Riola to Nebraska? Bad QB coaching has been the rule at UGA.
Greg Schiano was not sought after by one Div 1 program when Pruitt was going to hire him. Since that time, Schiano has won nothing at all. The fans were right.
Lies about rapes at TN when UGA has ended the lives of players and staff members because Kirby just can’t be a man and bench some players.
At UGA this year, a woman was made deceased on UGA’s campus because there isn’t security cause, “hey, migrants are ok”.. lol
Pruitt gave around 60K to a handful of recruits who had medical hardships.
Kirby for years has given cares, off campus houses for players but oh JP was worse by comparison? LOl
TN beat UGA for a decade straight. A feat UGA will never accomplish no matter how good they think they will be.
UGA has no immortal records.
TN does. Unscored upon Defense regular season.
TN is out-coaching and it’s depth is just about caught up on offense and certainly has on defense. UGA is a situational team. Like Bama, it was used to getting the best blue chips players since 17. With NIL and hte portal and it’s effects, UGA is getting worse while most other teams are improving. We’ve seen UGA’s best days as a team and their done as far as natty’s go and maybe for another 40 years. It lacks dynamics on offense and lucky to have beaten Mizzou and AU last year before falling to a very average Bama team.
UGA has never beaten Bama in a SECCG.
UGA is a one sport school and that is why it eventually will be out spent. Since NIL, TN is pulling way more GA elite players from the state of GA than it ever has.
Kirby wears a visor and a beta compared to Heupel lol
TDOW. Very well done. Very well done.
Police in Athens failed to do their job time and time again and at the request of UGA, kept DUI’s hidden with no punishments until two people’s lives ended. Still, to this day, that has not been resolved. Elite RB Trevor Etienne came to UGA and the first thing that he got was a DUI. UGA is a prime example of what failure to discipline looks like. It’s a disgrace to the SEC and all of college football when it comes to managing and disciplining a team. The coach is snubbed off when it comes to players following team rules. I’d rather lose one or two more games than completely fail my school as a HC, AD, and Chancellor rather than continue the way UGA has. This is why most of the fanbase dislikes UGA and roots for the other team 100% of the time.
d@mn boy, and to think I was worried about my post rambling on to the point of being pointless
you put the aim in aimless!
TDOW…That was great ! But it has far too much truth for any Vol fan to actually admit it’s the truth. They have a problem with the word “Reality”.
That’s rich coming from a fanbase that thinks they are going to continue their dominance after losing the greatest coach the world of college football has ever seen.
The reality is you won’t. I have zero problem with that word.
One of the best parts of my day is seeing all of these other fanbases get so pressed and bent out of shape over a team that’s been mediocre at best for nearly two decades. You have to come here and try to defend yourself…to us…for no reason…let that sink in.
Truly pathetic. You guys deserve the pro-rape coach. I’ll keep my pro-cheeseburger one.
The Vols are still looking good for that RealiQuest bowl bid though so don’t worry too much Vol $#!+heads
try harder RTR youre still lagging way behind trolls like tdub
UGA is a S*&#t program who bout players alongside Bama for a long time, that is buckling under the pressure of other teams benefiting more under the NIL and portal, getting more of those upper blue chips that UGA and Bama were used to getting/buying, bribing.. Bama beat UGA with the 8th ranked SEC QB and they got beat buy a Michigan team who was 73rd in passing offense. We warned you UGA and Bama, just as we warned you Saban would retire with a couple years of the implementation of the NIL. Another few seasons of not making the bid dance. Kirby will leave UGA. AU nearly beat them without a QB period, let along a ranked passing offense. lol
“Kirby will leave UGA.”
I’ll make a bet with you, we can put it in writing, $1,000.00 wager.
Skinny Boy Josh will leave UT before King Kirby leaves (retires) from UGA. Matter of fact I give you one more – Counting Skinny Boy Josh, UT will go through at least 2 more HC’s before Kirby leaves (retires) from UGA.
A $1,000.00 would buy you a lot of meth – what’d say Einstein, we got a deal?
Lmao! Yeah you got $1000
utjr fans really trying to sh*t talk their leading tackler leaving, wild… c’mon man do better, dudes obviously doing what’s best for himself, thank him for his time and move on…
UTJR?? That’s hilarious. If not for TN, Texas would currently be known as Northern Mexico. UT was founded before Texas was even a state. That’s like calling SC USCJR even though you were founded almost 80 years prior. Even though your football record is abysmal compared to theirs. You’re 23 games above .500.
That being said, the transfer portal is absolutely ruining college football as we know it. Attach the NIL to it and it’s a recipe for disaster.
A guy that is always out of position, getting beat, not needed, yet they were the leading tackler on the team. Sounds like the rest of the defense was not very good, that no one could overcome this guys faults, to be the leading tackler.
you two numb nuts need to learn how to read and comprehend. By the way billy boy welcome back. your trolling has gone unnoticed… much like your SC sports teams.
there is nothing wrong with stating the truth about a kid. had the article been about him not leaving the same issues would be discussed. The fact is he was a good player, not great. he will be missed but more from a depth standpoint. he replaced the starting middle linebacker when he got hurt so he would have to be a statue to not be at least near the top of tacklers. The fact is he did get beat on a bunch of toss sweeps, he was slow to react. that is just a fact. Not slamming him because he left just giving context to why he left and its because he wasnt cracking the starting lineup. he could probably be a starter somewhere like SC or bama :)
I know facts dont matter to trolls like you two but thought I would give it a try…again.
Lol facts, you wouldn’t know a fact even if it was another d*ck sl@pping you in the face. Fact is your top tackler is doing better for himself, and your mouth breathing azz is trying to talk sh*t about him. Speaking of athletic championships, when was the last utjr championship, the Clinton administration, lol you guys are basically Vandy east at this point, lol
You’re 23 games above .500. Your record is closer to Vandy’s than ours is.
Fact.
You have been to ONE SEC championship game…and you lost.
Fact.
Marcus Lattimore has more exploded knees than SC has national championships.
Fact.
Am I playing this game correctly?
I mean SC just had a perfect season in Women’s basketball with an NC, when was utjr’s last ship? I guess I shouldn’t compare
a utjr to Vandy, at least Vandy wins a championship in baseball every once in a while. Facts
If women’s basketball is your mountain top….so be it.
What a sad life it must be in South Carolina. UTJR and Vandy East being your best “slam” is pathetic at best.
If I’m not mistaken, I’m fairly certain TN owns a fairly substantial lead on USCJR in the , correct? Somewhere along the lines of 27-11.
Oh yeah. The super popular women’s basketball is what sets you apart and makes you special. Almost forgot.
Women’s Basketball All time TN VS USCJR
TN 51 – USCJR 16
Lol still dodging the question, I get it I’d be embarrassed too if I was utjr, I repeat when was your last athletic championship, might be time to swap utjr out for a more competitive university, you guys are epitome of deadweight in the SEC, it’s a fact, utjr brings nothing to the table. Your dynasties died with Pat Summit.
To think I’m dodging a question is hilarious. People come on TN’s articles spouting the same thing. 1998. That shows a weak mind since that and UTJR is the best thing you got coming out of that hole in your face that your dad uses to relieve stress. Truly pathetic. You’re like Donk but somehow dumber cause you pull for an even worse team.
You have one…ONE….SECCG appearance…and lost. But continue using women’s basketball as your mountain top. Totally not pathetic. You did smack TN around in football a few years ago. Good job. We returned the favor last year.
Bro literally said 98, lol f*cking as pathetic as that 10 day old arbys sandwich your mom calls her p*ssy, lol
You’re almost as salty as your uncle’s spunk dripping off your chin.
Weak minded and pathetic.
I know you’re probably not doing well financially since those with limited brain power ,like yourself, don’t hold high end jobs due to the retardation. Please drop your venmo and I’ll gladly send you the funds for 50′ of heavy duty rope. I know you’ll need the extra length and strength to hold your rotund @$$ up in that tree long enough to the job. It would be my honor to finance it.
It’s been a pleasure owning you here on this site just as TN has been doing to SC for decades now.
Lol, you sure do talk a lot about s*cking your relatives D*cks, seems like projecting, and the only thing getting owned is your moms bologna over barbed wire p*ssy down on Cherry Street for a pack of eagle 100’s, lol 98, hahaha…
Still waiting on that SC football championship….feel free to chime in when you find it.
Beating TN 2 years ago is as close as you’ll get.
Lol 98, bro Vandy won a baseball championship in 2019 , f*cking 98, that makes y’all Vandy Jr
Oh boy…there are a lot of angry elves in here on both sides of this argument. Sweet baby Jesus…
The kid played great for us this past year but apparently wasn’t going to start this year because the guy he replaced is back soooooooo he moved on. Good luck to him, let’s roll.