“I really just enjoyed the family part,” he said. “The coaches really welcomed me and my brother. Also, I liked how the coaches coach their players and how they coached us at the camp and everything like that.
“They just said that they really liked what they saw (from me at camp), and they’re going to keep in touch with me, and I should definitely come down for a game and everything like that. (They liked) how versatile I am. I’m able to do a bunch of stuff, whether it’s rushing off the ball or guarding someone.”
While Spillman and his brother are originally from Sierra Leone in West Africa and moved to Nashville in November 2013, he said the possibililty of staying in-state and playing at Tennessee is among the reasons he’s interested in the Vols.
“Me and my brother actually talk about that a lot,”
Edwin Spillman said. “We just really enjoyed the community and the family part of Tennessee.”
Heupel’s staff has made a good impression on Spillman, who also remembers attending Tennessee’s home game against Vanderbilt in November 2019 with his brother.
“They were really welcoming to me and my family,”
Edwin Spillman said. “My whole family actually went down to the barbecue and got to meet a lot of the coaches there and everything like that.”
The recruiting process is just getting started for him, but he said “there’s a really big chance that me and my brother go to the same school.”
“We’ll just wait and see,” he added. “I’ll definitely just, like, leave it up to him with his decision and everything like that. Going through just high school and everything like that, (I am) just focused on getting better.”