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Video: Tennessee releases highlight video from first spring practice
After a long winter, the Tennessee Volunteers returned to the field on Tuesday afternoon for their first practice of the spring session.
Following the practice, Tennessee released a highlight video showing off some of the drills players worked through to start the season:
https://twitter.com/Vol_Football/status/844556687247859713
With several key players to replace, including QB Joshua Dobbs and DE Derek Barnett, the Volunteers will need every rep available to them as they attempt to rebuild on the fly.
As the season approaches, Volunteer fans are sure to be watching several position battles very closely, but perhaps none more than the quarterback competition between Quinten Dormady and Jarrett Guarantano.
The new faces of the team are going to be Kongbo, Darrin Kirkland and Jauan Jennings. Actually looking forward to this year. No hype to try to live up to. Young kids getting experience last year will be big this year. Also think Dormady will begin season as starter. He knows offense well but JG will take the spot from him before the year is done. Just my thoughts Vol Nation.
You have to add John Kelly in that group of leaders (faces of the team). Many people inside the program has said he is a leader among his teammates.
You are right but Kelly took that role at the end of last season. Great kid.
New faces Kirkland and Jennings? Both have started since they were freshmen. Kongbo has flopcity writen all over him. I think Darrel Taylor is gonna be the surprise of the D. I see Dormandy starting first few series against GT but JG taking over rest of game and season. Dormandy has a good arm but cant run worth shat. Tennessee’s o-line is shakey as hell. I fear is Dormandy starts, it will be Worley 2.0. Sack city in every game and Worley had some wheels on him too, well better than Dormandy. The key to whole season is QB play and WRs. New WRs stepping up and playing SEC football. Kelly is solid as hell at RB just depends who’s at the #2 spot. Fils-Ame to me, just doesnt have it. Unless he grew a pair during the off season. He tippytoes to the line like he is afraid to get hit. The D is up in the air right now. Shoop needs to start earning his paycheck. Cant remember how many times last year dang 4th string Db would be put on an island with a double blitz…….then guess what happen, Other team scored TD. Gonna be interesting volfans…….buckle the fack up.
Lets see what Kongbo does with starter snaps. He started to do better at the end of the season and he was always going to be a project, (only played 3-4 years of organized football) regardless of how many pre-season hype videos about him. I agree that JG will end up being the QB for most if not all of the season, and its because his skill set obviously fits this offense better. Fils-Aime has 14 carries and did fine in goal line situations so lets give him more of a chance. You can’t tell how a RB’s career is going to go from 14 carries. O-line is the most experienced group on the team and while it was definitely a weak spot last year, it has a chance to succeed with a new coach and another 5 and 4 star added to the mix.
All I am saying is that most of the players you are bashing haven’t been around long enough or had enough snaps to have any type of opinion formed about them. The team might surprise some people, because there is still plenty of talent and the expectations are close to what they were last year.
Don’t you know that my boy knows everything about UT football? If he says that it is going to be a bad year then you better believe him. If they would have hired him then UT would be favorites to win the national championship.
Thanks mom. Can you come and pick us up over at Eugenes moms house. We just finished running a train and apparently she wanted some dark meat. Sorry about the mess Newgene, we get wild when the the train is rolling.
Its not that I am bashing them, its not believing all the hype. Kongbo talked more shat that Tuttle and Mckenzie combined. Prove it on the field. Tired of all these hype videos UT keeps putting out. Darrell Taylor from reports, is 10 times the player that Kongbo is but Taylor dont have the 5 star hype. Kongbo gets the preferred treatment right now because everyone thought he was good. Fils-Ame only did good from 1 yard out. Believe he scored 2 or 3 TDs from a yard out against 3rd teamers. Go watch video of him and see if I am not correct. He tippytoes to the line like he is afraid. Kelly explodes thru the line thats why Kelly is so good. With the o-line as bad as it is right now, you cant tippytoe up there. Dont know how long you have been a Tennessee fan, but I have been one for 41 years and counting. You can always see talent. Remember watching Heath Schuler play in his first game and everyone jaw dropped at how good he was. You can tell even early who is there to play and who is there to ride the bench.