UT’s Wanya Morris entered the portal, today.

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The 6-foot-5, 320-pound Morris, who's from Savannah, Ga., and starred at Grayson High School in Loganville, was rated a five-star prospect and ranked the No. 28 overall player, No. 6 offensive tackle and No. 5 player in Georgia by the industry-generated 247Sports Composite when back in May 2019 he chose Tennessee over Auburn and scholarship offers from most of the SEC plus Clemson, Florida State, Oklahoma and others.

The past year didn't bring Morris the same kind of success, though. He underwent hip surgery to address a lingering injury and was slated to miss the spring practice Tennessee wound up not really having. (The Vols got two practices in before the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered sports in America for months.) When Tennessee reconvened and starting preparing for the 2020 season, Morris was caught up contact-tracing quarantines in multiple occasions, stunting his development and readiness for his sophomore season.

At one point during the preseason, Morris, who was a Preseason All-SEC second-team selection, missed 14 days of practice while in quarantine, practiced once or twice once he was cleared and then right back into quarantine, missing an additional two weeks of preparation.

Nevertheless, Morris played both left and right tackle in the season-opening win against South Carolina and re-assumed his starting spot at left tackle the following week against Missouri. He then started three games in a row before an ankle injury suffered against Kentucky sidelined him for the loss to Alabama. He returned to the starting lineup against Arkansas and played 71 snaps with no sacks allowed and no penalties committed and helped the Vols rush for 222 yards in the loss at Auburn two weeks later.

However, Morris lost his starting spot to Jahmir Johnson for the season's final three games, though he did earn starts against Florida and Texas A&M lined up at tight end and wearing a No. 23 jersey in Tennessee's run-heavy jumbo package.

Despite his bouts of inconsistency losing his starting job this past season, Morris is a player Tennessee wouldn't want to lose thanks to his natural talent and potential, but his step into the transfer portal suggests the big offensive tackle intends to continue his career elsewhere.

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I keep hearing rumblings of Tennessee and Georgia being in deep trouble with the NCAA. The rumor is they got into a bidding war over a recruit and it got out of hand. We may see a lot more players from those schools in the portal. Lots of smoke. It could be a very large fire.

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