BREAKING: Vols add wideout Jordan Young
It's not often you see a kid with 17 touchdowns in the state of Georgia receive All-State notoriety and go unnoticed. That's very much the case for Conyers, Georgia wide receiver Jordan Young. A impromptu visit to Knoxville last weekend left him feeling so good about Tennessee that he picked the Vols on Friday afternoon.
"I felt at home there," Young said. "The coaching staff felt like they have been together before. They have a great chemistry and just with he players they have coming up, I feel like it's going to be a great thing and place."
Young spent the weekend as the undercard to bigger names like Quay Walker and J.J. Peterson, but all of that was lost on him. Tennessee treated him like he was the biggest name on campus and it made an impression on him. He loves the staff and believes they have the right mindset to win.
"I feel like the program has a championship feel," Young said. "Coach Pruitt coming from Alabama, he knows a lot. Coach (David) Johnson coming from Memphis had a lot of great receivers. I think it's just a great fit there."
The Vols hired Johnson on Saturday and he arrived just in time to meet Young Sunday morning. It's the beginning of what both hope to be a strong bond.
"He's a guy you can talk to and he is big on communication," Young said. "Having kids our age, him being a high school coach, he knows what we are coming from on our level. Our meeting last weekend was a good conversation and we have been in contact all week."
Young is the reigning state champion in the 110 hurdles in the Peach state and track is where he has made a name for himself. Now that will transition to football, but he believes that his lack of star power can be tracked to the fact that football has been more of an activity and less of an agenda.
"I'm a track guy so I didn't really do camps," Young said. "My first two years of high school, I know nobody came to our high school because in layman's terms, it was garbage. We really didn't get any scouts. I'm on my fourth coach in three years there."
And the latest head coach at Heritage also put him in position to make this jump late in the process.
"I'm a late bloomer," Young said. "My junior year wasn't productive at all. I just want to say it's a blessing to be happening in this short amount of time. I just listened to coach Johnson this year and I trusted his system and spent time in the weight room."
Young continues to hear from programs like Auburn and Ohio State as National Signing Day approaches.