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Ryder said he was shocked when he picked the 22.6-pound sweet potato.
A sweet potato grown by an East Tennessee woman in 2018 was hailed as a state record, weighing nearly 14 pounds. It was unclear whether that record had since been broken.
Ryder's sweet potato might be the state's largest, but it falls short of the Guinness World Record -- an 81-pound, 9-ounce sweet potato grown in Spain in 2004.