KNOXVILLE — The second time around was much easier and less stressful for Alvin Kamara.
What didn’t change for the Tennessee running back was his recruiting rating.
A year after he was a four-star recruit coming out of Norcross High School in the Atlanta area, Kamara was a four-star prospect — Rivals.com and Scout.com bumped him up to five-star status — coming out of junior college.
What did change for the player who will add another dynamic option offensively for the Volunteers this fall is how he approached all of it.
“This time, I came to it with a more mature approach,” Kamara said after Tennessee’s practice Saturday in Neyland Stadium, “just knowing the right things to look for, what to kind of discredit, what to really just focus on more than anything.