Tennessee football: Transfer RB gone from Vols program after 18 days

Tennessee football loses running back transfer Lyn-J Dixon after only 18 days with the team.

Surely, there are items in your fridge that have been there longer than Lyn-J Dixon was with the Tennessee football program.

For those of you who haven’t had a banana in a month, this post is right up your alley. After spending this past spring at West Virginia, the former Clemson running back lasted a grand total of 18 days on Rocky Top. Dixon is no longer with the program, and it remains to be seen what is in store for his college football future. He was a senior last year at Clemson before hitting the portal.

Tennessee only has four scholarship running backs now with Dixon exiting stage right: Junior Jabari Small, sophomore Jaylen Wright, freshman Dylan Sampson and freshman Justin Williams-Thomas.

Looks like star quarterback Hendon Hooker is going to have to throw it even more this season…

RB Lyn-J Dixon is gone from Tennessee football program in 1,555,200 seconds

There’s wanting to get out of Dodge, and then there’s being Cosmo Kramer-levels of “I’m out!” No matter how it ends, no matter how it starts, Dixon has gone from one Power Five to another so often, it has been impossible to keep up. I could have sworn he was still running the ball for Dabo over at Climpson, but here we are. Regardless, what does this mean for Tennessee going forward?

Well, it makes the Vols’ offense incredibly one-dimensional. While Small and company could prove to be a revelation, not having a balanced offensive attack will certainly make things challenging for Hooker in his second year under Josh Heupel. There is one other option, though. It would require the prettiest practice ball thrower Joe Milton III to get some run as a run-first quarterback of sorts.

Since Heupel has games to win in an attempt to finish in second place to Georgia in the SEC East, he is probably not going to go in that direction. Thus, Tennessee is now one bad injury on offense from being in a bad spot. The Vols earned a lot of credibility last season in Heupel’s first year at the helm. It would be a shame if Tennessee hit a back slide in year two. Oh, the sophomore slump…

Tennessee opens the year with Ball State at Neyland Stadium on Thursday, Sept. 1 at 7:00 p.m. ET.

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