Cade Mays has changed his Southeastern Conference location and his uniform colors from red and black to orange and white.
He’s changed his tune, too.
As a Georgia sophomore during the 2019 football season, Mays played all five positions for the Bulldogs up front and was loving every minute of it.
“They always travel seven offensive linemen in the NFL, and being able to play every one of those positions will help me should somebody go down over here or somebody go down over there,” Mays said at that time. “It has been a blast, especially at home. No matter what position I’m playing, there are 93,000 people here to watch us, and that’s awesome.”
Now in his second season at Tennessee, the 6-foot-6, 325-pound senior out of Knoxville Catholic is having fun maximizing his potential at one position. Mays is entrenched at right tackle, and he has yet to allow a sack in 304 snaps entering Saturday’s noon showdown against South Carolina (3-2, 0-2 SEC) inside Neyland Stadium.