Tennessee CB Kamal Hadden announces he's done for the season after shoulder surgery

Tennessee cornerback Kamal Hadden has suffered a season-ending shoulder injury. He announced the news that he would be out the rest of the year, following surgery, on his Instagram account.

The redshirt senior left last weekend’s 34-20 loss at Alabama holding his shoulder following a tackle on the sidelines.

“I always took the longer route, I always was in a fight with adversity, I always had it a lil harder, I always wanted it a lil tougher cause at the end the win a lil more greater,” Hadden wrote on Instagram. “This s*** far from over. I’ll be having season ending surgery this morning. The get back start now.”

Hadden was having a terrific season, having logged 19 tackles, three interceptions and eight pass breakups in seven games worth of action. He was ranked as the No. 12 cornerback in the country this week by On3.

The Tennessee cornerback appeared to be taking the news hard, if his Instagram post was any indication.

“I put everything I had in it. Just to get right this last round, Learning how to not always be right, but also Learning how to be right nd still make correction to be even better,” Hadden wrote. “Learning it’s a right way and it’s a wrong way to situations. I was stuck in my ways for a long time thinking I had all the answers.

“With time I learned Change is apart of growing, and you gotta sacrifice to grow. I was just getting comfortable, the work was just starting to show, I was showing the world what I already knew. My last year, my bag year, and I strike out.. I feel like I let everybody down. The fam, gang, the team, everybody.”

In his three-year playing career at Tennessee, Hadden had totaled 87 tackles, 5.5 tackles for a loss, six interceptions, 18 passes defended and two forced fumbles.

Tennessee is in the middle of its preparations for Kentucky right now, which will afford the program little time to work on who will step in to fill the void left by Hadden’s absence.

The two programs are slated for a 7 p.m. ET kickoff on Saturday, with a broadcast on ESPN.