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Tennessee Vols Edge Rusher Joshua Josephs Rated The Highest Among Run Defenders Week 4
Tennessee’s defense came to play against the Oklahoma Sooners. The Vols played on the road in their first in-conference game of the season against the No. 15 ranked Sooners at the time. The Volunteers finished the game on the winning side as they defeated the Oklahoma Sooners 25-15.
Tennessee had much success on the defensive side of the ball including a defensive effort from one player who topped all up front. That player is an edge rusher and current junior Joshua Josephs. Josephs wasn’t only the highest-rated run defender on the Tennessee roster but in the nation during week 4. Josephs finished the day with three solo tackles, a tackle for loss, and a fumble recovery.
Josephs plays opposite from star edge rusher James Pearce Jr. who is off to a bit of a slow start to the season. This could be due to the double team factor which has ultimately resulted in Josephs or someone else having a better path to the QB.
Josephs was rated a 99.3 according to PFF.
The Vols don’t play another game again until October 5th when the Vols will travel to Arkansas to take on Sam Pittman and the Razorbacks. Tennessee will need big plays from their edge rushers to be able to contain talented dual-threat QB Taylen Green. The 4-2-5 has been the base defensive scheme that seems to work as this Tennessee defense and coach Tim Banks has done a great job so far this season being one of the highest-rated defenses in the country. Many believe that Banks has done so well that he could eventually find himself receiving a head coaching gig down the road.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – We’re experiencing our hottest weather since summer 2025.
The hottest weather of the year is having a major impact on Middle Tennesseans. Temperatures have soared well above average during the afternoon and remained unusually high at night for several days. That’s caused thousands across Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky to temporarily change the way they go about everyday life. The heat has been so significant that temperatures have actually been in record territory.
For example, this past Sunday, Nashville nearly tied the highest minimum temperature ever for the date — 80° set in 1936. Nashville’s low on Sunday was 79.
As for high temperatures, while it was easily the hottest day of the year on Tuesday, Nashville missed that day’s record by nine degrees.
We’ll be closer on Wednesday, missing it by just six degrees.
There’s an even closer approach in line for Thursday. Our forecast for Nashville is 98°. The record high temperature is 101.
Cooler weather will eventually take over. By early next week, we expect highs to return to more seasonable levels — the low 90s.
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Former Tennessee baseball pitcher Garrett Stallings was called up by the Milwaukee Brewers on June 30.
Stallings, 28, likely will make his major league debut against the Cincinnati Reds on June 30 in the second game of the Brewers’ four-game homestand.
Stallings played at Tennessee from 2017 to 2019 in the early years of Tony Vitello’s stint at the Vols’ head coach. He earned a starting role as a freshman and became the ace by his junior season.
In 2019, the Los Angeles Angels selected Stallings in the fifth round of the MLB draft. He bounced around in the minors before landing firmly in Triple-A with the Norfolk Tides, and later the Brewers’ affiliate Nashville Sounds, in 2024.
Stallings posted a 3-3 record with the Sounds in 2026 with a 3.45 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 62⅔ innings.
He will be the 54th player in Tennessee history to reach the major leagues and the 12th since 2020. He will join left-hander Garrett Crochet (2020); right-hander Ben Joyce (2023); infielder Andre Lipcius (2023); IF Trey Lipscomb (2024); outfielder Jordan Beck (2024); RHP Seth Halvorsen (2024); RHP Chase Dollander (2025); RHP Blade Tidwell (2025); INF Christian Moore (2025); OF Drew Gilbert (2025); and RHP Chad Dallas (2026).
Dallas made his debut for the Toronto Blue Jays on June 4.
Wynton Jackson covers high school sports for Knox News. Email: wynton.jackson@knoxnews.com
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