What Tennessee football commit Kaleb Beasley and his 6 defensive TDs could mean for Vols secondary

Kaleb Beasley of Lipscomb Academy, in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, June 21, 2023.

Kaleb Beasley is a two-sport star at Lipscomb Academy with college football on the nearing horizon.

But there is a sport he doesn’t talk too much about, but it is something gaining more of his attention.

Golf.

“I play with my boys at Lipscomb,” said Beasley, a four-star cornerback and the No. 1 college football recruit in Tennessee for the Class of 2024 according to the 247Sports Composite. “We go for fun.”

Beasley, a Tennessee football commit, is still in the beginning stages. He doesn’t keep score, he leaves that to those golfing with him – his football teammates. But there are times like any beginning golfer when he gets frustrated.

There have been times when the frustration shows at McCabe Golf Course in Nashville. Like the time he had enough and walked off.

His drive off No. 4 was good as he recalled. But then the next two shots he said went in the woods.

“We were all playing bad that day,” said Beasley with a laugh. “So it was, ‘OK, we’re leaving.’

“Football and basketball, I’m good at. I’m athletic.”

Golf though is still a work in progress.

That’s OK, though. Football is his college future.

What Kaleb Beasley brings to Tennessee football

Beasley, a 6-foot-1, 185-pound senior, is No. 1 on The Tennessean’s Dandy Dozen, a collection of the top college football recruits in the Nashville area as picked by the newspaper for the Class of 2024. Beasley is the No. 15 cornerback in the country according to the 247Sports Composite.

He is the third highest-rated recruit in Tennessee’s 2024 recruiting class, ranking behind five-star wide receiver Mike Matthews of Lilburn, Georgia and four-star wide receiver Braylon Staley of Aiken, South Carolina.

Beasley is also one of six Tennessee in-state commits. He is coming off a season where he had 36 tackles with…

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Author : The Tennessean

Publish date : 2023-07-29 22:22:50

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