“I plan to consider them because they’re one of the schools that have been truthful with me,” said Paysour, who’s ranked by 247Sports as the No. 50 overall prospect and No. 7 wide receiver in the 2021 class. “They’ll tell me the truth and stuff (and not) lie to me.” The 6-foot-1, 172-pound Paysour said he “was kind of surprised” by the offer he received from the Vols last week, and he was looking into visiting Tennessee again even before he learned of the offer.
He said the Vols made it clear to him during Saturday’s visit that they now plan to make him “a priority” in the 2021 class, and they like what they have seen from him on film. “They just said they watched my film and a lot stood out,” Paysour said. “One coach that came from Georgia this year, the offensive coordinator (
Jim Chaney), I like him the most because he told me what I could do better to change my game so I could be better. “They said I was a priority. Tennessee is, like, a ‘Wide Receiver U’ school. That’s what they’re trying to get back to being.”
“I got to talk to coach
Tee Martin, the wide receivers coach. He was talking about
JuJu Smith-Schuster and how he was, like, on defense and they moved him to offense,” Paysour said, referring to the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver who played under Martin at USC. “He was just talking about basically where he came from and how he don’t care to start freshmen and stuff.”
Paysour said Chaney “was telling me about my game and stuff,” while Pruitt “told me he liked my game and just to keep running — like, do track and stuff and just don’t stop running.” Three months later, he hasn’t forgotten the experience of attending his first game at Tennessee. “I just know they have a big atmosphere,” Paysour said. “They have a lot of fans and stuff. It was, like, really packed, but they got blown out that game. Their wide receivers are pretty good. I like how the stadium is set up. It goes up instead of going wide."
