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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 […]

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).

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 […]