2022 position changes for Beckwith, Whitehead, and Bell?

[NighthawkVol]

The way this staff is recruiting certain positions, I wonder if Len’Neth Whitehead, Dee Beckwith, and Trinity Bell are in for position changes next year. Especially the first two.

The staff will sign at least two freshmen RBs in Williams and Sampson and has made it clear they'd take another from the portal if they can get the right guy. That means you'd have Small, Wright, Williams, Sampson, and a portal guy as the 5 deep. And Marcus Pearce was ahead of Beckwith on the depth chart this year. Beckwith, if he wants to stay with the program, would need to find a different position. TE? LB? As for Whitehead, he has needed to move to LB since he arrived on campus.

Trinity Bell is interesting. We haven't seen him as a Vol, but he's reportedly very athletic for his size. Nixon and Campbell look like future stars at TE (based on reports from fall practice), Warren comes back, and we bring in Foley. But we need help at the SDE spot. Maybe Bell moves there? We don't need 5 scholarship TEs.

 

[Volfan1000]

I think Pruitt recruited Trinity Bell as a possible defensive lineman.

 

[OH-Vol]

Aren’t we 50/50 with Williams?

I do not expect much of an impact anywhere for Beckwith. Would love to see Bell move to DE… with Campbell and Nixon we should have plenty of young guys at TE.

 

[J C Higgins]

The way this staff is recruiting certain positions, I wonder if Len’Neth Whitehead, Dee Beckwith, and Trinity Bell are in for position changes next year. Especially the first two.

The staff will sign at least two freshmen RBs in Williams and Sampson and has made it clear they'd take another from the portal if they can get the right guy. That means you'd have Small, Wright, Williams, Sampson, and a portal guy as the 5 deep. And Marcus Pearce was ahead of Beckwith on the depth chart this year. Beckwith, if he wants to stay with the program, would need to find a different position. TE? LB? As for Whitehead, he has needed to move to LB since he arrived on campus.

Trinity Bell is interesting. We haven't seen him as a Vol, but he's reportedly very athletic for his size. Nixon and Campbell look like future stars at TE (based on reports from fall practice), Warren comes back, and we bring in Foley. But we need help at the SDE spot. Maybe Bell moves there? We don't need 5 scholarship TEs.

A couple of weeks ago (on this forum) Beckwith was said to dislike contact which would exclude him from being a LB.

 

[gunner]

I would try all three at outside linebacker or DE. Vols need big quick and fast guys to rush the passer.

 

[Fullfillmer]

The way this staff is recruiting certain positions, I wonder if Len’Neth Whitehead, Dee Beckwith, and Trinity Bell are in for position changes next year. Especially the first two.

The staff will sign at least two freshmen RBs in Williams and Sampson and has made it clear they'd take another from the portal if they can get the right guy. That means you'd have Small, Wright, Williams, Sampson, and a portal guy as the 5 deep. And Marcus Pearce was ahead of Beckwith on the depth chart this year. Beckwith, if he wants to stay with the program, would need to find a different position. TE? LB? As for Whitehead, he has needed to move to LB since he arrived on campus.

Trinity Bell is interesting. We haven't seen him as a Vol, but he's reportedly very athletic for his size. Nixon and Campbell look like future stars at TE (based on reports from fall practice), Warren comes back, and we bring in Foley. But we need help at the SDE spot. Maybe Bell moves there? We don't need 5 scholarship TEs.

I also like the idea of trying some of these receivers at db. We are going to be much deeper at receiver than in the defensive backfield / depending on who we close with.

 

[MajinBooCarter]

I don't expect Whitehead or trinity bell to move positions,. Maybe beckwith to TE. We absolutely so need 5 TEs on scholarship if not more

 

[Nocleats]

Or they transfer out

 

[WoodsmanVol]

A couple of weeks ago (on this forum) Beckwith was said to dislike contact which would exclude him from being a LB.

Maybe LB is OK, some players rather be the hitter than the hittee. RB question, might be good to have a 5+ deeper stable. You saw how Small and Evans, our two best got busted up and how it affected our game.

 

[Sarms58]

I think Pruitt recruited Trinity Bell as a possible defensive lineman.

Yea, very athletic kid. Suffered a serious knee injury last year so he wasn’t physically able to compete this year but hopefully has been able to hit the weight room hard and fully rehabbed. Figured he would be a killer DE.

 

[CAVPUT]

The way this staff is recruiting certain positions, I wonder if Len’Neth Whitehead, Dee Beckwith, and Trinity Bell are in for position changes next year. Especially the first two.

The staff will sign at least two freshmen RBs in Williams and Sampson and has made it clear they'd take another from the portal if they can get the right guy. That means you'd have Small, Wright, Williams, Sampson, and a portal guy as the 5 deep. And Marcus Pearce was ahead of Beckwith on the depth chart this year. Beckwith, if he wants to stay with the program, would need to find a different position. TE? LB? As for Whitehead, he has needed to move to LB since he arrived on campus.

Trinity Bell is interesting. We haven't seen him as a Vol, but he's reportedly very athletic for his size. Nixon and Campbell look like future stars at TE (based on reports from fall practice), Warren comes back, and we bring in Foley. But we need help at the SDE spot. Maybe Bell moves there? We don't need 5 scholarship TEs.

I'm hoping we can recruit over all 3.

 

[wmcovol]

A couple of weeks ago (on this forum) Beckwith was said to dislike contact which would exclude him from being a LB.

Dislike for contact really limits his positions.

 

[savannahfan]

A couple of weeks ago (on this forum) Beckwith was said to dislike contact which would exclude him from being a LB.

I sorta doubt that statement about any football player who has made it through all levels of the game to get to college ball who "dislikes contact". Not many people "like contact" so I say most offensive skill players try to avoid contact if they can but except it as part of the game. The best running backs I have ever watch at any level try to avoid contact, but some when I becomes necessary will lay their ears back and run right over another player. It is rare to find a really good to great player who does not try to avoid contact until it is called for. (such as blocking or tackling).

 

[rockydoc]

Beckwith may be like Jakob Johnson who never found a home at UT but went on to a productive NFL career with the Patriots.

 

[jarnol32]

A couple of weeks ago (on this forum) Beckwith was said to dislike contact which would exclude him from being a LB.

I mean it would kind of exclude him from any position on the field except kicker or punter..

 

[beachvol23]

No one has been able to confirm if Dee is meeting his daily quota of protein shakes, so a transfer is probably most likely.

 

[CaliVol2009]

No one has been able to confirm if Dee is meeting his daily quota of protein shakes, so a transfer is probably most likely.

No one has been able to confirm if Dee is meeting his daily quota of protein shakes, so a transfer is probably most likely.

Lmao

 

[Batman1948]

A couple of weeks ago (on this forum) Beckwith was said to dislike contact which would exclude him from being a LB.

If a player doesn't like contact, why would he play football

 

[wrangler]

I sorta doubt that statement about any football player who has made it through all levels of the game to get to college ball who "dislikes contact". Not many people "like contact" so I say most offensive skill players try to avoid contact if they can but except it as part of the game. The best running backs I have ever watch at any level try to avoid contact, but some when I becomes necessary will lay their ears back and run right over another player. It is rare to find a really good to great player who does not try to avoid contact until it is called for. (such as blocking or tackling).

Walter Payton would run into contact rather than step out of bounds, to get that extra yard. You never know how important that might turn out to be. And his philosophy was to be the one who delivered the hit.

 

[RAVOL]

The way this staff is recruiting certain positions, I wonder if Len’Neth Whitehead, Dee Beckwith, and Trinity Bell are in for position changes next year. Especially the first two.

The staff will sign at least two freshmen RBs in Williams and Sampson and has made it clear they'd take another from the portal if they can get the right guy. That means you'd have Small, Wright, Williams, Sampson, and a portal guy as the 5 deep. And Marcus Pearce was ahead of Beckwith on the depth chart this year. Beckwith, if he wants to stay with the program, would need to find a different position. TE? LB? As for Whitehead, he has needed to move to LB since he arrived on campus.

Trinity Bell is interesting. We haven't seen him as a Vol, but he's reportedly very athletic for his size. Nixon and Campbell look like future stars at TE (based on reports from fall practice), Warren comes back, and we bring in Foley. But we need help at the SDE spot. Maybe Bell moves there? We don't need 5 scholarship TEs.

You know that one day you look up and a player like Bell is being drafted as a Athletic OT. Be interesting as he grows in Strength Program and UT Training Table if this happens. In CHRIST Alone

 

[Batman1948]

I sorta doubt that statement about any football player who has made it through all levels of the game to get to college ball who "dislikes contact". Not many people "like contact" so I say most offensive skill players try to avoid contact if they can but except it as part of the game. The best running backs I have ever watch at any level try to avoid contact, but some when I becomes necessary will lay their ears back and run right over another player. It is rare to find a really good to great player who does not try to avoid contact until it is called for. (such as blocking or tackling).

Did you ever get to watch Hershel Walker play the game?

 

[wmcovol]

I sorta doubt that statement about any football player who has made it through all levels of the game to get to college ball who "dislikes contact". Not many people "like contact" so I say most offensive skill players try to avoid contact if they can but except it as part of the game. The best running backs I have ever watch at any level try to avoid contact, but some when I becomes necessary will lay their ears back and run right over another player. It is rare to find a really good to great player who does not try to avoid contact until it is called for. (such as blocking or tackling).

I played HS ball vs a RB that the world recruited. His position coach his jr year took a job as head coach at another school defore his senior year. The coach told us that summer “if you stick him good, he’ll quit”. Well we played him early his senior year and he ran wild in first Qtr. On a KO before half, one of our LBers hit him straight up real good. He was finished for the game.

This guy signed with a school we all love dearly and played early on in his career until he quit. Yes, it happens.

 

[vegasvolfan]

A couple of weeks ago (on this forum) Beckwith was said to dislike contact which would exclude him from being a LB.

How do you make it this far in football and have an issue with contact?

 

[DiderotsGhost]

As skeptical as I was about Whitehead at RB, he did come on at the end of the season. Still not sure he can be elite there and maybe he can at LB, but difficult to say.

Beckwith seems like he needs to switch, though.

 

[NighthawkVol]

I don't expect Whitehead or trinity bell to move positions,. Maybe beckwith to TE. We absolutely so need 5 TEs on scholarship if not more

Why?