By JESSE SMITHEY Markeis Barrett had no intention of playing high school football. It's a good thing he changed his mind. Barrett, a 6-foot-1, 170-pound Class of 2024 talent, is watching his stock as a college football prospect skyrocket … [Read more...]
5STAR PREPS 2021 Offensive Football Player of the Year: DeSean Bishop, Karns
BY DAVE LINK DeSean Bishop continues going full speed ahead to reach his potential as a running back. The Karns junior won the Class 5A Mr. Football Award after leading the Beavers to a record-setting season and into the second round of the … [Read more...]
5Star Preps Top 30 players from the Class of 2022
By JESSE SMITHEY College football recruiting seems to be getting back to normal. After more than a year of Covid-19 precautions keeping players off college campuses, area prospects have been hitting the travel circuit hard. For the last … [Read more...]
Tennessee Football offers three local Knoxville-area standouts following invite-only camp
BY JESSE SMITHEY Three area players benefitted from attending football camp at the University of Tennessee last week. Each picked up a scholarship offer. Here's what Karns running back DeSean Bishop, Webb all-purpose athlete Brandon Winton … [Read more...]
FYI, Tennessee: Here are some local football prospects you should evaluate (maybe offer)
By JESSE SMITHEY Not even a day after Josh Heupel was named head football coach at Tennessee did an article or two come out about how he, and whatever staffers he had, had already reached out some of the the top in-state recruits. Heupel even … [Read more...]