One of my favorite things about doing the magazine every year is that I generally come away from the process with a list of things that I’m looking forward to when the season finally arrives. I wasn’t sure whether that would happen this year because we were coming off a mixed-bag season […]
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Post-Spring Projections: Quarterbacks
As we enter what I call the dark days of summer because we’re just weeks removed from spring practice but months away from actual football starting, we’ve got to fill our minds with visions of orange-and-white grandeur to pass the time, right? That’s why you see esteemed Internet sites like […]
Tennessee Recruiting: Vols Getting Lawless in Knoxville
Tennessee has the opportunity to meet a major need in the 2018 recruiting class without leaving state borders, and the first step toward achieving that massive portion of this year’s haul happened Monday night. Brant Lawless, a 4-star defensive tackle out of Nashville Christian School, pledged to Tennessee over offers […]
Tennessee’s 2017 NFL Draft Presence a Return to Normalcy
In every season but two between 1939 and 2014, the Tennessee Volunteers had at least one football player taken in the NFL Draft. The Vols dubiously doubled that number in the past two years, as zero players were taken by NFL teams. Again, we should take this opportunity to thank […]
Vols quarterback Joshua Dobbs selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round of 2017 NFL Draft (with highlights)
VFL and NCAA poster boy for brainy student-athletes everywhere Joshua Dobbs was just selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the draft’s 135th overall pick of the 2017 NFL Draft. Nice Guys everywhere, rejoice. We don’t always finish last. Dobbs’ played in 37 games over the course of his Tennessee career. He […]
Vols wide receiver Josh Malone selected by Cincinnati in fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft (with highlights)
And that makes five. Five Tennessee Volunteers now taken in the 2017 NFL Draft, as the Cincinnati Bengals just selected receiver Josh Malone with the 128th pick. Malone had 50 catches for 972 yards and 11 touchdowns last season. For his career, Malone played in every game that past three seasons […]
Vols linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin selected by the Detroit Lions in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft (with highlights)
VFL linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin is the fourth Tennessee Volunteer to be taken in this year’s NFL Draft. He was chosen by the Detroit Lions with the 124th pick overall. Maybin (known to some of us around here simply as “Mayhem”) was poised to dominate his senior season last fall, but […]
Vols cornerback Cameron Sutton goes 94th overall to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2017 NFL Draft (with highlights)
Add Cam Sutton to the list of Vols taken in the first three rounds of this year’s NFL Draft. Sutton was the third Tennessee player taken when he was chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers as the 94th overall pick. It became obvious with this pick that as the draft progresses, […]
Vols running back Alvin Kamara goes 67th overall to the New Orleans Saints in 2017 NFL Draft (with highlights)
VFL Alvin Kamara was the second Tennessee player to hear his name called at the 2017 NFL Draft. Kamara was just selected by New Orleans with the draft’s 67th overall pick. As we said earlier, he and Barnett were the first Tennessee players to be selected in the draft since […]
Vols defensive end Derek Barnett goes 14th overall to the Philadelphia Eagles in 2017 NFL Draft (with highlights)
VFL Derek Barnett was the first Tennessee player to hear his name called at the 2017 NFL Draft. In front of a raucous home crowd, Barnett was just selected by the Philadelphia Eagles with the draft’s 14th overall pick. He’s the first Tennessee player to be selected in the draft […]