It’s not common for football players to jokingly tell each other, “Get your weight up.”

Tennessee sophomore running back Jalen Hurd

What is uncommon, though, is a running back making that joke to a tight end.

But most running backs don’t look like Tennessee sophomore Jalen Hurd, who stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 242 pounds.

Vols sophomore Ethan Wolf, who stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 248 pounds, said he needed a big summer in the strength and conditioning program to get Hurd off his back.

“Me and Jalen, we’re always joking back and forth together about who weighs more and stuff,” Wolf said after Friday’s practice on Haslam Field. “He had me for a couple of weeks there in the summer. When we first started up all that running, I think I was like 240, and he was like 242, and he’s telling me to get my weight up.

“It’s kind of funny hearing that from your running back.”

Wolf said he jokingly tells Hurd all the time that he’ll have to eventually join him in the tight end room if he keeps growing, but the tight end sheepishly admitted that Hurd is a freak who maintains his speed and agility no matter how much weight he adds.

“I tell him, ‘Jalen, you might want to lose a little weight, or you’re not gonna be as fast. You’re gonna be running slower than us,’” Wolf said. “But he certainly hasn’t lost any speed. He’s moving out there, and he’s extremely agile. It’s crazy.”

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