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Christian McCaffrey Teases Tennessee For Recruiting Blunder | Rocky Top Insider
San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey posted a picture of a recruiting blunder dating back to his high school days with Tennessee as the culprit.
McCaffrey, a four-star recruit in the 2014 class according to 247 Sports, stacked up offers as a prospect at Valor Christian in Littleton, Colorado. While Tennessee’s recruiting staff did not offer McCaffrey a scholarship according to 247, the Vols were in contact with the future superstar through the mail.
McCaffrey posted a picture of a letter addressed to “Chrsilo McCaffrey” from Tennessee.
“Throwback to a letter I got in High School lol,” McCaffrey captioned the post.
McCaffrey posted the picture to an Instagram story on Tuesday morning.
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McCaffrey wound up taking his talents to Stanford, where he would become the program’s third-leading all-time rusher with 3,922 total rushing yards en route to becoming a Top 10 draft pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.
Tennessee had their eyes set on five-star running back Jalen Hurd in the 2014 class instead, an in-state prospect from Hendersonville, TN. Hurd was ranked as the No. 2 athlete in a class full of elite running back prospects including Bo Scarbrough, Leonard Fournette, Dallvin Cook, Royce Freeman, Nick Chubb, Joe Mixon, and Sony Michel.
Ironically, enough, Hurd’s first stop in the NFL was with the San Francisco 49ers.
The Tennessee-San Francisco connection has been quite active over the last few months. Not only did VFL Jauan Jennings have a phenomenal game in the Niners’ Super Bowl loss, but the team also signed VFL Josh Dobbs in the offseason.
After Tennessee’s bowl win over Iowa on New Year’s Day, San Francisco tight end George Kittle (an Iowa alum) paid up a bet to Peyton Manning by wearing a Tennessee shirt on social media.
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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