De’Rail Sims, the running backs coach for the Cincinnati Bearcats, has been hired by the Tennessee Volunteers for a similar position.
Jerry Mack, Tennessee’s running backs coach, left the team this summer to take a similar position with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Finding a successor wasn’t a problem because the University of Tennessee has produced quality running backs in recent years; they simply needed to choose the right one. As VolQuest’s Austin Price first revealed, head coach Josh Heupel found a successor on Monday when the program hired De’Rail Sims, the coach of the Cincinnati Bearcats running backs, to fill the position.
For the previous two of the last three years, Sims has coached running backs at Louisville and Cincinnati in the Power-5 league. Sims’s running games are generally productive; over the last three seasons, his units have consistently ranked in the top 25. Dylan Sampson and Cameron Seldon, two athletes with more athleticism than tire tread, are back for Tennessee.
Now, when Sims arrives to town, he may work with both. In terms of recruiting, they will need to start forming a connection with running back Justin Baker because he is the only back in the 2025 class. In the 2024 cycle, running back Peyton Lewis was also signed by the Vols.
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