Ryan Johnson, a Brentwood Academy football player committing to Tennessee.Read moreTennessee Vols add three besides Ryan Johnson
KNOXVILLE – Ryan Johnson didn’t spend Saturday in Knoxville attending the Tennessee football program’s second “Orange Carpet Day” event of the summer.
The Brentwood Academy offensive lineman added his name to the Volunteers’ commitment list for 2016 instead.
The 6-foot-6, 270-pound rising junior announced his pledge on a Nashville radio station Saturday morning, choosing the home-state Vols over early verbal offers from Alabama, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Kansas State and interest from 30 other programs.
Johnson’s father, Tyke, played at Hixson High School in the early 1980s and coached his son’s football teams until he started the sixth grade.