Ty Redmond

And one of the things he can point to about his opportunity at Tennessee is, hey, a guy from the Atlanta area that wasn't all that heralded in terms of rankings.

Ty Redmond came in and started a bunch of games as a freshman and now is playing really well as a sophomore and looks like he's maybe on the fast track to being a three and out kind of player at the cornerback position with the way he's playing.

So that that's that that's the kind of thing Tennessee can point to in addition to the portal success.

Yeah.

you can't complete the ball against him.

So I think Ty Redmond is the least talked about player in his defense.

And I think it's for great reasons just because, you know, I have a lot of success against him.

His patience, his technique, man, it's been awesome to see.

TJ Metcalf and the way he's racked up the tackles.

But Ty Redmond has quietly had maybe the second best season of anybody in the secondary or anybody on Tennessee's defense behind Xavier Gilliam.

And this stat, credit to Bill Martin for posting this.

Since the start of the 2025 season, Ty Redman leads the Power Four in pass breakups with 21.

And after leading the SEC last year as a freshman All-American, he's tied for first this year as a sophomore.

And so he's having this kind of season where he's been so effective for Tennessee, and it is a big reason why a guy like Xavier Gilliam or, you know, Dajon Lane is able to have these big plays is because Ty Redmond is playing some lockdown defense on his side of the field.

So very quietly having a fantastic year for Tennessee.

Riley, a guy that I think we all knew would have a great season, but I think even exceeded our expectations.

This is from Bill Martin, Tennessee Sports Information Director, Football Information Director.

Quarterback Ty Redmond leads the Power Four in pass breakups with 21.

He led the SEC last year as a freshman All-American.

Now he's tied for first in the SEC this year as a sophomore with nine pass breakups.

And, but the fact that he's, you know, six foot two and a half, about 190 pounds, really good frame, obviously for, for a cornerback, the guy that some people I think thought might be a safety, but has shown this season that he can really cover well and, and has pretty good speed out on the perimeter to tackles pretty well in space.

Still, still got some things he can work on like a lot of corners, but yeah, no reason he can't be a pretty good player for Tennessee in the future and maybe even get some early playing time so you know looks looks like a really nice pickup here late for Tennessee and gives them a lot more certainty in the secondary where you know I think you always got to continue to invest out of the out of the high school ranks you know they've had some success out of the transfer portal at cornerback but you know, you see Ty Redmond's and guys like that as, as nice success stories.

And now you've got to continue to put out guys who can play on special teams early.

So you need to continue to recruit the high school ranks.

Kind of quietly, because we've been talking about how good this defense has played as a whole, and we've kind of broken it down, and we've looked at the linebackers and the way that they're using Jeremiah T. Lander, and they're bringing him down to the line of scrimmage, and Arian Carter's doing a little bit of that too, and Amari Campbell's flying all over the place making tackles.

And we've talked at length about that defensive line and how Xavier Gilliam's playing like one of the best players in the country, but what we're not talking at length about is is the fact that Ty Redmond is tied for the lead in the country in past breakups.

Dajon Lane, and we've talked a little bit about Dajon Lane and the way that he's played to start the year.

TJ Metcalf is one of Tennessee's most efficient and effective and productive tacklers.