Vol fans will love the story of how Jalin Hyatt first met Peyton Manning
Tennessee wide receiver Jalin Hyatt is having a superhuman year. The 6-foot-2 native of Irmo, SC leads the nation in touchdown catches and leads the SEC in overall receiving yards by an insane margin of 393 yards. But despite the fact that Hyatt has had a star-making season, he still gets starstruck by the people […]
Tennessee wide receiver Jalin Hyatt is having a superhuman year. The 6-foot-2 native of Irmo, SC leads the nation in touchdown catches and leads the SEC in overall receiving yards by an insane margin of 393 yards.
But despite the fact that Hyatt has had a star-making season, he still gets starstruck by the people he's met by being around Tennessee's football program. To be more specific, Peyton Manning.
During a recent interview with the NFL Network's Rich Eisen, Hyatt mentioned that one of the coolest things about his transcendent five-touchdown performance against Alabama was sharing a cigar in the locker room with Peyton Manning afterwards. And while discussing the Bama postgame, Hyatt also told the story of the first time he met Manning in the Vols' football facility. I think any Big Orange fan will love this…
"We were actually lifting together one time. Which was actually crazy. That was my first time meeting (Peyton) here. … He was already doing some stuff in the weight room. I see him, nobody else is in here, just Peyton Manning. And I'm just like, I'm lost. I didn't know what to do. I was like "Is this a dream or something?""
Imagine just going about your day and seeing one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of football casually lifting weights beside you. Incredibly, for Tennessee football players that's a reality sometimes.
And as for Hyatt, I have no doubt that there will be future Vol players that will be totally awestruck when they get the chance to lift weights beside him at UT's facility one day.
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