Worth reading 8.8.19: Gooden out for season, Niehaus departs

If you read only one thing about the Vols today . . .

. . . make it this, from 247Sports:

Everything Jeremy Pruitt said after Wednesday’s practice

The big news in there is that (1) nose tackle Emmit Gooden has torn his ACL and will be out for the season, and (2) offensive lineman Nathan Niehaus has left the team.

Other Vols stuff worth reading today

1. Rucker: Gooden’s injury already throwing wrench at Vols, via 247Sports
2. Returning starter on OL leaving Vols, via 247Sports
3. Pruitt: Vols ‘have to be patient’ with freshman OL Wright, via 247Sports
4. LB To’o To’o impressing Pruitt in opening days of camp, via 247Sports