Elijah Simmons, defensive tackle (No. 51)
Class: Redshirt freshman
Height: 6-2
Weight: 340
Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee
High School: Pearl-Cohn
Elijah Simmons turned heads immediately upon stepping on campus due to his size and strength at a young age, and redshirted his freshman season while appearing in three games.
Still a raw prospect, Simmons is an interior defensive lineman with a nasty edge that helped Tennessee in some goal-line packages in 2019, and figures to be a big part of the rotation moving forward despite the wealth of depth on the defensive line in 2020.
2020 Tennessee football schedule
- Sept. 5 vs. Charlotte (Knoxville)
- Sept. 12 at Oklahoma (Norman)
- Sept. 19 vs. Furman (Knoxville)
- Sept. 26 vs. Florida (Knoxville)
- Oct. 3 vs. Missouri (Knoxville)
- Oct. 10 at South Carolina (Columbia)
- Oct. 17 OPEN DATE
- Oct. 24 vs. Alabama (Knoxville)
- Oct. 31 at Arkansas (Fayetteville)
- Nov. 7 vs. Kentucky (Knoxville)
- Nov. 14 at Georgia (Athens)
- Nov. 21 vs. Troy (Knoxville)
- Nov. 28 at Vanderbilt (Nashville)