NASHVILLE -- The junior days, visits and additional offers are inevitably coming.

But don’t bother telling that to Ty Chandler, the sublime Rivals.com four-star running back from Nashville’s Montgomery Bell Academy. He owns eight or more college offers from a veritable Who’s Who of College Football, but he’s not letting that deter his work.

“I’m just out here to compete, compete with some other great players and get some extra work in,” he said at Sunday’s National Playmakers Academy workout at Hillsboro High School. “I’m just trying to do the basics: get bigger, faster, stronger. Just keep improving on my game and try to be the best that I can be.”

No stranger to the recruiting process, Chandler knows his spring will feature some informal campus trips.

“Yes sir, I don’t have any [junior day trips] set up right now but I want to go check out some schools like Georgia, Tennessee again and just get out to Duke and some other places,” said the 2015 Tennessee Titans D-II Mr. Football winner.

Who is Chandler hearing from the most these days?

“Probably Tennessee, Ohio State and Duke,” he said. “Notre Dame pretty hard, too.”

With Chandler’s signing date 13 months away, he’s still relishing the recruiting cycle and also using it to get better.

“Yes sir, it’s amazing. Such a blessing to have the attention. Fun process, just enjoying it. It’s motivation,” said Chandler, who rushed for 2,300 yards and scored 31 touchdowns as a junior.

He’s also working to add weight to his frame, despite colleges already telling him they like his hard-nosed approach.

“Probably my vision and just being physical and trying to run downhill,” he said of coaches’ messages.

“I’m about 185-190. I know, I don’t look it at all. I want to be right around the 200 mark. I’m trying to get there. I’m trying to eat, I’m trying to eat. But it’s not putting on like I want it to right now. Hopefully that will improve.”