There was already good news on the day with Tennessee football making headway in the trenches and targeting the North Carolina area. The Vols had made the top five for three-star offensive lineman Colby Smith of Reidsville, N.C. But later in the evening, the news even got better for them.
Just one county directly south of the county where Smith is from, the Vols made another cut, this time from an elite defensive lineman. Payton Page, a four-star on Rivals out of Dudley High School in Greensboro, N.C., listed the Vols in his top three.
Ranked a top 30 prospect nationally, the No.