Senior linebacker Keenan Pili will return to Tennessee for a seventh collegiate season in 2024.
His NCAA extension of eligibility waiver was granted on Friday.
The 6-foot-3, 240-pound Pili appeared in one game for the Vols in 2023. He recorded four tackles and played 29 snaps in Tennessee’s season-opening win versus Virginia. Pili suffered an upper-body injury and missed the final 11 games during the regular-season.
Pili played at BYU from 2019-22. He appeared in 36 games at BYU, recording 190 tackles, 11 tackles for a loss, three sacks, two fumble recoveries, one forced fumble, four pass break-ups and two quarterback hurries.
Pili redshirted as a true freshman in 2016 at BYU before serving a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Orlando, Florida from 2017-19.
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