The winter window for the NCAA transfer portal may have closed Wednesday, but that doesn’t stop players from making commitments.
Cornerback Gabe Jeudy-Lally, who spent three years at Vanderbilt before playing this past season at Brigham Young University, committed Thursday to Tennessee. The 6-foot-2, 185-pounder entered the transfer portal on Dec. 28, having collected four tackles 11 days earlier in BYU’s 24-23 topping of SMU in the New Mexico Bowl to cap an 8-5 season.
“Let’s get it Rocky Top,” Jeudy-Lally wrote on Twitter, adding “#GBO” to his post.
Jeudy-Lally will arrive in Knoxville with 23 career starts, including 10 this past season for the Cougars and 10 with Vanderbilt in 2021. He played in four games as a freshman in 2019, allowing him to redshirt that year, so Jeudy-Lally will have two seasons of eligibility with the Volunteers should he decide to use the pandemic-related extra year the NCAA implemented in 2020.
During his stint with the Commodores, Jeudy-Lally played against Tennessee three times. In the 2020 matchup won by the Vols 42-17 in Nashville, he intercepted backup quarterback J.T. Shrout early in the fourth quarter and had a 30-yard return.