Gabriel Osenda insists he did not have any inside information.
When Baylor School running back and fellow Canadian David Gabriel Georges made his much-anticipated football commitment to Tennessee on July 22, the current freshman offensive tackle for the Volunteers learned along with everyone else.
“I didn’t really know at any certain point,” Osenda said Wednesday in a news conference after Tennessee’s first preseason practice, “but it was definitely exciting.”
This time last year, Osenda had yet to play his first snap as a senior left tackle for Erik Kimrey’s Red Raiders, who would post a 12-0 season that included two dramatic victories over rival McCallie and a rain-soaked triumph over Brentwood Academy at Finley Stadium that clinched Baylor’s second TSSAA Division II-AAA state championship in four years.
While Gabriel Georges still had this upcoming season at Baylor remaining after that BlueCross Bowl victory, Osenda and defensive back Jamyan Theodore signed with the Vols, hooking up with former Baylor receiver Joakim Dodson, who played for the Red Raiders in 2024 and had a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the Vols’ Music City Bowl loss to Illinois last December.