Utah State’s Daniel Gray has a bit of motivation entering his team’s opening game. The ex-Tennessee Volunteer returns to Knoxville looking to prove that he hasn’t missed a beat since being forced to redshirt last season.
“It sucked,” Gray told the Salt Lake Tribune. “You’re sitting there watching your friends do stuff you can’t do and if they lose, you have to sit there because you can’t do anything about it.”
“We’ve been working hard this summer and I want to showcase that hard work,” he said. “Coming up here, Nevin got me in the weight room and showed me the important stuff I needed to know to get to the next level.”
Gray will join a Utah State pass defense that returns just one starter– free safety Brian Suite– from the previous season. The Aggies will face a revamped Tennessee wide receiving corps that includes preseason All-SEC favorite Marquez North, JUCO All-American Von Pearson, veteran dual-threat Pig Howard and five-star freshman Josh Malone.
A former freelance journalist from Nashville, Jason covers Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Kentucky
