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Joey Olsen discusses Vols’ offer, recruitment process

2024 prospect Joey Olsen discusses being offered by Tennessee and his recruitment process.

Tennessee offered a scholarship to 2024 prospect Joey Olsen on Feb. 10.

The 6-foot-5, 200-pound Olsen is from Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

He plays wide receiver and tight end.

“I’ll play wherever colleges want me,” Olsen told Vols Wire. “Whether that is receiver or tight end.”

Olsen’s Tennessee offer came from Jack Taylor who serves as the Vols’ assistant tight ends coach.

Vertical passing attempts, tempo and having tight ends flex out are seen throughout Josh Heupel’s offense at Tennessee. These are areas Olsen is accustomed with at Lakeridge under second-year head coach Spencer Phillips.

Phillips came to Lakeridge after coaching in the NFL. He was a coaching assistant with the Colts (2020-21) and assistant quarterbacks coach in Philadelphia (2016-20).

“A lot of the stuff from Chip Kelly when he was at the Eagles, definitely a lot of that stuff, and then we are pretty uptempo,” Olsen said when describing Phillips’ offense at Lakeridge. “We signal from the sideline, so we are not a really big huddle team. I love playing fast.”

Olsen’s recruitment process is picking up with more schools showing interest. He holds Tennessee as a top school under Heupel with the ability of playing in the Southeastern Conference.

“I would say definitely Tennessee is one of my top schools, especially being one of my earlier offers,” he said. “That conference is the biggest in college football, so it would be an honor to play in the SEC.”

Olsen discussed upcoming visits for his recruitment process as he begins to go outside of Oregon.

“I would love to get down there to Tennessee at some point,” Olsen said. “I heard it is a very beautiful place and I would love to get there at some point.

“I have been on two Oregon State visits and an Oregon visit, so none out of the state. I am supposed to go to USC and UCLA in March.”

Phillips previously joined the show “Football Two-A-Days” while still with the Eagles. The show can be listened to here or below.

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Kevin Sherrer to New York: ‘A great move’ and good NFL fit

Kevin Sherrer joins the New York Giants.

Kevin Sherrer
Photo by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire

KNOXVILLE – Tennessee inside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator Kevin Sherrer is departing the University of Tennessee football program and joining the New York Giants’ staff.

Sherrer is reuniting with newly-hired Giants head coach Joe Judge.

Sherrer and Judge were together at Alabama from 2010-11. Judge served as Alabama’s special teams assistant, while Sherrer oversaw the Crimson Tide’s Director of Player Development.

New York Giants Introduce New Head Coach Joe Judge
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – JANUARY 09: Joe Judge poses with a helmet after he was introduced as the new head coach of the New York Giants during a news conference at MetLife Stadium on January 9, 2020 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images)

Before his time at Alabama, Sherrer served as defensive coordinator at Hoover High School under head coach Rush Propst.

Propst discussed his former assistant joining the Giants on the show “Tennessee Two-A-Days.”

“I think Kevin is as solid as a football coach as it gets,” Propst said. “To me, the NFL maybe the best suit for him because he is even temperament. He is a guy that is not loud or boisterous at all, he is steady, and he really understands the game of football inside and out.

“He has cut his teeth, and reuniting with Jeremy (Pruitt) and the things that they have done, schematically he is going to be fine. He is not going to get too far away from fundamentals that makes the game what it is today. He is a great teacher of the game and will walk into the room from a standpoint that he is not going to be overbearing enough and to where it is going to be good for that room in an NFL environment. I think it’s a great move for him and I think he will be very successful, and in due time he will parlay that job into something even greater. He has all the goods.”

The entire interview can be listened to below or here. Philadelphia Eagles assistant quarterbacks coach Spencer Phillips also joined the show.

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