Four-star Tennessee tight end signee Dominick Wood-Anderson

Another one of Tennessee's incoming signees is heading to campus in time to start classes this month.

Dominick Wood-Anderson, the top junior college tight end prospect in the 2018 class, confirmed to GoVols247 he was taking a Wednesday night flight to Knoxville to officially begin his career with the Vols.

According to Tennessee's online directory, Wood-Anderson is listed as an active student admitted for the May mini-term semester, which began on Wednesday.

The four-star prospect out of Arizona Western College is the second signee to get to campus this week as he joins defensive lineman Kingston Harris is arriving ahead of the rest of the 2018 signing class.

The 6-foot-5, 245-pound Wood-Anderson was an impressive coup for Tennessee's new staff on the first day of the early signing period in December, when he picked the Vols over finalists Alabama and Texas A&M and signed with Tennessee.

The former Texas commitment, who pledged to the Longhorns last July before re-opening his recruitment in October, is the No. 9 overall junior college player in the 247Sports Composite for the 2018 class, and he's expected to be one of the top immediate contributors from this class for the Vols.

During the past two seasons with the Matadors, Wood-Anderson totaled 43 catches for 476 yards and four touchdowns.

The Vols were hopeful Wood-Anderson would have joined the rest of the early enrollees in arriving on campus in January, but he was forced to delay his enrollment until this month because he had more academic requirements to complete.

“It was a little disappointment,” Wood-Anderson told GoVols247 in January. “But as long as I get there, I’m fine with that. I just want to get there.”

Tennessee has a handful of capable bodies at tight end, but none of the current tight ends on the roster quite match what the Vols want at the position like Wood-Anderson does.

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The Vols want tight ends who can play on the end of the line of scrimmage and be powerful run-blockers while also possessing the ability to create mismatches and stretch the middle of the field as a target in the pass game, and Tennessee's new staff believes Wood-Anderson checks both of those boxes.

“He’s a guy that you can go put your hand on the ground at tight end, play in the box. But he also can stretch the field vertically,” offensive coordinator Tyson Helton said in February. “I think he’s going to come in and really help us in the tight-end position really, really fast.

“We need a big man like him. He can do it. This is a guy who’s like the prototypical NFL tight end — a big guy that can kind of do it all — and we expect big things out of him.”

Many of Tennessee's incoming signees are expected to arrive in time for the start of summer classes on May 31.

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