Tennessee running back Peyton Lewis is hosting an event for youth football players in his hometown community this summer.
According to an announcement from Lewis on Wednesday, he will hold his first football camp this summer on June 14 for youth players ages 5 to 14 at Salem High School in his hometown of Salem, Virginia.
The event will be free for those wanting to attend. Registration is available online at this website.
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While Lewis has a big event coming up this summer with his camp, he’s also getting ready for his second season in Knoxville with the Tennessee football program.
As a four-star prospect in the 2024 recruiting cycle, Lewis committed to Tennessee in May 2023. The Virginia native stayed locked into Tennessee for the remainder of the year until he signed in December and enrolled in late January.
As a true freshman at Tennessee in 2024, Lewis racked up 64 carries for 339 yards and three touchdowns. While he did play in all 13 games last season, the bulk of Lewis’s carries came late in the season as backup running back DeSean Bishop was banged up for a few weeks in November. Lewis’s biggest game was in a 71-0 beatdown of Kent State, where the freshman ran for 99 yards on 10 carries.
“Him missing spring practice last year, and then having the opportunities that he did in the game last year, the speed of the game, he understands how the tempo the game flows,” UT RB coach De’Rail Sims said about Lewis this past spring. “You saw him get comfortable in the games he played, particularly in the Ohio State game in the second half. You saw him starting to get in his zone, to feel really good.”
Now heading into his sophomore season, Lewis has another chance to make an impact on the Vols’ offense in the wake of Dylan Sampson’s departure for the draft. Tennessee will return Bishop and Lewis from the previous season and pair them up with Star Thomas, a senior transfer from Duke this past offseason.
“I think the biggest deal with him this offseason has been running behind his pads,” Sims continued on to say. “But also holistically as a group, being able to win on the free hat. And then the pass protection piece of it, because he didn’t get very many opportunities at that last year. He’s taken a tremendous step in that this spring, in terms of getting better.”
Lewis projects to be a key piece of Tennessee’s ground game this season, which will be extra important considering the Vols will be breaking in a new starting quarterback in 2025.
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