The good news: The projected starters along the Vols’ o-line this fall all weigh in at over 300 pounds. The bad news: Everybody else is bigger still.
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Making Progress: Red Zone Defense
Here are Tennessee’s stops in the red zone last season: Alabama went for it on fourth down up 58-21 with four minutes left South Carolina took a knee in the red zone at the end of the game Kentucky had a field goal blocked with the Vols up 24-7 with […]
Making Progress: Pace and Balance
No team in the country ran fewer plays than Tennessee last season. The Vols had 716 snaps in 12 games, 59.7 per contest. Maryland was next with 728 snaps. Tennessee also flirted with last place in this category in 2017 – 732 snaps, 125th nationally – but the offense did […]
The weight of Tennessee’s offensive line from 2017-2019
Is being undersized part of the problem for Tennessee’s offensive line? Here are the numbers for the last two years and the projections for this fall.
Making Progress: Forcing Turnovers
How many times did Tennessee force more than one turnover last season? One was ETSU. The other two? You guessed it: Auburn and Kentucky. In the other nine games, the Vols forced a single turnover six times, and had the goose egg thrice (UTEP, Georgia, Vanderbilt).
Offensive line continuity
How many guys does it take to start at five offensive line positions over the course of 12 games? More than you think, especially in 2017.
Momentum starter? JUCO DB Art Green commits to the Vols
We noted earlier today that JUCO DB Art Green seemed to be leaning to Tennessee coming off his weekend unofficial visit to Knoxville, and sure enough just hours later Green indeed committed to the Vols. Green is Tennessee’s 7th commitment in the 2020 and its second Junior College early enrollee […]
Mid-May Recruiting Musings
Tennessee RB commitment Ebony Jackson was offered by Alabama over the weekend, making those who felt like the Vols staff got in early on the Atlanta-area star look prescient. The 6’2, 210 pound track star has both the big body Tennessee covets at the position but also the game-breaking ability […]
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The right size guys: Vols’ defensive front as big as Alabama’s, Georgia’s
Heading into only his second season, Jeremy Pruitt has already grown his defensive front seven into the same size as Alabama’s and Georgia’s.