Assistant Kelsey Pope turns Tennessee WRs into stars, here's who might be next
Assistant coach Kelsey Pope's best work can be seen in before-and-after film. Radarious Jackson and Travis Smith want to be his next success stories.
Kelsey Pope loves a before-and-after picture. It’s helped the Tennessee assistant become one of college football’s best wide receivers coaches. He has created quite a reputation for taking raw receivers from Point A to Point B in one year, and the latter destination has put those players among the league’s leaders.
From Jalin Hyatt to Braylon Staley , one of the SEC’s best receivers for four straight seasons has been a first-year starter for Tennessee. Pope’s latest challenge is to turn sophomores Radarious Jackson and Travis Smith into second-year success stories. So far, he likes where they are between those “before” and “after” markers.
“We try to always pull video evidence of where it got started and where they are now. We had one of those sessions (where we) singled out those two from a year ago to now,” Pope said. “Both of them are playing fast.
They’re both urgent. They’re both competitive. Both their bodies are changing a lot.
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