2024 4-star RB Peyton Lewis commits to Tennessee football

Salem (Virginia) 4-star running back Peyton Lewis committed to Tennessee football on Saturday, he announced on Twitter.

"Proud to announce my COMMITMENT towards The University of Tennessee!" Lewis wrote.

The 6-foot-1. 190-pound Lewis committed to the Vols over offers from South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Alabama and Auburn. 247Sports reported that he had visited UT at least twice over the spring after the Vols offered him on Feb. 6.

Lewis said his family had vacationed in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg.

“I kind of fell in love and then after that we went back, back, back,” Lewis told 247Sports. “People usually go to the beach or wherever. We went to Tennessee and we loved it. At the end of the day, it’s a place I love, a place that my parents love. It’s somewhere I feel like my potential will not be wasted and I can also get a great education and also play football.

“Seems like the perfect utopia for me.”

Lewis also unofficially visited South Carolina and Virginia and attended Penn State's junior day, 247Sports reported.

Lewis is ranked as the No. 15 best running back and the No. 215 player overall in the 2024 class in 247Sports' Composite rankings.

Lewis is the 12th known commitment in Tennessee's 2024 recruiting class, and the first running back commitment. The class currently is No. 9 in 247Sports' rankings.

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