About 20 years before Jerod Mayo became the NFL’s youngest head coach, he proved to be more mature than his age during a recruiting visit to the University of Tennessee.
Rather than enjoy the party scene around campus, Mayo tried to connect with his future UT teammates and learn everything he could about the football program.
He wanted to talk X’s and O’s. He wanted to know what expectations his coaches had. And he wanted to know how the Vols planned to win once he was on the roster.
“Mayo was all ball — all football,” said Jayson Swain, Mayo’s former UT teammate.