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Rising Stars Emerging in College Football Fall Camps | Bleacher Report
Jonathan Kongbo, DE, Tennessee
Credit: 247Sports
Tennessee scored a major win in February when it signed the top-rated junior college transfer in the country in Jonathan Kongbo, who began his career at Wyoming before spending last season at Arizona Western College. Though the Volunteers have plenty of talent on the defensive line, you can never have enough big guys up front (as last year showed).
At 6'6 and 270 pounds, Kongbo is among the largest defensive ends in the country and is getting reps at tackle this month. New defensive coordinator Bob Shoop is using the same strategy he implemented at Penn State with Carl Nassib, who constantly moved around on the line in 2015 and ended up with a school-record 15.5 sacks along with 19.5 tackles for loss and six forced fumbles.
"Im not going to ask him to do 25 different things," Shoop said of Kongbo, per SEC Country's Mike Griffith. "Its do two things really well in a game."
The learning curve has been steep but fast for Kongbo, who was born in the Congo and moved to Canada when he was five but didn't begin playing football until his senior year of high school.
I wouldn't tarde our D-Line will any other in CFB. We are loaded with future NFL stars
Go Vols
Jonathan Kongbo, DE, Tennessee
Tennessee scored a major win in February when it signed the top-rated junior college transfer in the country in Jonathan Kongbo, who began his career at Wyoming before spending last season at Arizona Western College. Though the Volunteers have plenty of talent on the defensive line, you can never have enough big guys up front (as last year showed).
At 6'6 and 270 pounds, Kongbo is among the largest defensive ends in the country and is getting reps at tackle this month. New defensive coordinator Bob Shoop is using the same strategy he implemented at Penn State with Carl Nassib, who constantly moved around on the line in 2015 and ended up with a school-record 15.5 sacks along with 19.5 tackles for loss and six forced fumbles.
"Im not going to ask him to do 25 different things," Shoop said of Kongbo, per SEC Country's Mike Griffith. "Its do two things really well in a game."
The learning curve has been steep but fast for Kongbo, who was born in the Congo and moved to Canada when he was five but didn't begin playing football until his senior year of high school.
I wouldn't tarde our D-Line will any other in CFB. We are loaded with future NFL stars
Go Vols
