Hood appeared in 12 games for the Vols in 2025, totaling 50 tackles, 4.5 tackles for a loss, one interception, nine pass deflections, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n
He transferred to Tennessee from Colorado<\/a>. Hood played in seven games, including one start, during his only season at Colorado<\/a> in 2024. He totaled 24 tackles, two interceptions and six pass deflections for the Buffaloes.<\/p>\n Hood transferred to Colorado from Auburn<\/a>. He played for the Tigers in 2023 as a freshman. Hood appeared in four games and recorded three tackles against Maryland in the 2023 Music City Bowl.<\/p>\n He is from Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy in McDonough, Georgia.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Tennessee has produced 392 all-time NFL draft picks, including the AFL draft which merged in 1967. 18 Tennessee players have been drafted during the Josh Heupel<\/a> era.<\/p>\n Follow Vols Wire on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated April 24, 2026, 7:44 p.m. ET The NFL draft continued Friday with the second round in Pittsburgh,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[679,9,24,55,54,56,82929,29129,948,3723,49933,15245,82930,950,690,691,19369,24937,6568,949,24938,12760,682],"class_list":{"0":"post-209272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-sstssportscollegevolunteersfootball","15":"tag-sstsnfootball","16":"tag-tagamerican-football","17":"tag-tagcollege-sports","18":"tag-tagcolorado-buffaloes-football","19":"tag-tagfacebook","20":"tag-tagjosh-heupel","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnew-york","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagsec-conference-football","25":"tag-tagsec-hub","26":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-tagtennessee-volunteers-football","29":"tag-tagtwitter","30":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Colton](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/86660212007-img-5829.jpeg\")
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