ETSU week Tuesday practice

[Fingers]

Defensively, it continues to be technique work to clean up the mistakes made in the West Virginia game because of fundamentals.

Freshman linebacker JJ Peterson remains in the acclimation period and is still trying to get a handle on how to do drills and the pace of things. Peterson was receiving a lot of individual instruction during the fundamental work in practice. At one point for a few minutes, even head coach Jeremy Pruitt was in linebacker drills.

Offensively, running back Ty Chandler who didn't practice on Monday and was listed as day to day by Pruitt was back on the practice field on Tuesday.

On the offensive line Drew Richmond and Marcus Tatum appeared to be getting the work at right tackle as it looks like there was no real shuffling of personnel and positions during the individual work.

-Brent Hubbs

The departure of sophomore Trey Coleman left the Vols with just four scholarship running backs in Chandler, Tim Jordan, Madre London and Jeremy Banks, and Tennessee's staff decided to move Princeton Fant back to running back this week to add another body there.

Sophomore Kivon Bennett was part of Tennessee's second trio on the defensive line against West Virginia as he rotated in at defensive end alongside Paul Bain and Emmit Gooden to spell starters Kyle Phillips, Shy Tuttle and Alexis Johnson.
Bennett appeared to be going through individual drills with the outside linebackers on Tuesday, though.

With Bennett working elsewhere, freshman Kingston Harris and sophomore Matthew Butler were in their regular jerseys and numbers and working at defensive end on Tuesday, suggesting they are not with the scout team this week. Harris briefly played in the opener, but Butler has been with the scout team. He is now wearing No. 94.

Jahmir Johnson, who started at left guard at West Virginia, continued to get reps at right tackle on Tuesday.
That left freshman Jerome Carvin and redshirt freshman K'Rojhn Calbert to get the bulk of the work at left guard next to left tackles Trey Smith and Nathan Niehaus.

Safety Todd Kelly Jr. was going through individual drills normally on Tuesday.

-Patrick Brown

 

[Power T-Rev]

First!!!

 

[Bauce]

I'm surprised they had practice today...i thought everyone quit

 

[strongj81]

First page! Things are looking up! Gbo!

 

[JobuVol]

JJ looks like he's getting ready to hibernate.

 

[cashamillion23]

New to the 1st page.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Wazzuuuppp

 

[dcm3w]

I honestly wonder how we are going to about fixing our offensive line. It's almost statistically impossible to be as horrid as we've been for the past 5 years.

 

[Volunteer Boy]

JJ looks like he's getting ready to hibernate.

Hilarious !!!

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

Kinda surprised about J Johnson getting a look at tackle. He looked pretty good at guard in the opener

 

[tbones0711]

I honestly wonder how we are going to about fixing our offensive line. It's almost statistically impossible to be as horrid as we've been for the past 5 years.

Sounds to me like they still experimenting especially at right tackle. Maybe they want the better players to be able to play any down position.

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

I like that Peterson is getting one on one training. Seems like they are trying to accelerate his process.

 

[KeyVol14]

Can someone explain to me why we have so many multiple 5 star busts? And I find it hard to believe when someone says “they were overrated in the recruiting rankings”; when a lot of them had offers from many big time schools.

 

[sona]

Can someone explain to me why we have so many multiple 5 star busts? And I find it hard to believe when someone says “they were overrated in the recruiting rankings”; when a lot of them had offers from many big time schools.

 

[Orange defense]

 

[81Orange]

The 5* ratings are earned in high school and don’t mean crappi in P5. Most need to be taught a full set of skills to play P5 ball. Especially the linemen. Butch’s staff didn’t teach much and the new coaches have not had time to teach much.
Each week players review how they played the previous game, then they get a little time to work on getting better. Significant Improvement can take a season.
Watch the Pruitt 5* and see how many busts there are.

 

[FBtime]

 

[VolFan4life24]

You can tell Peterson is not in shape and I would imagine it will be awhile in the s/c before he can play many meaningful snaps

 

[orangefreak11']

Slowest response to practice updates all year ^
Any for Wednesday? @Fingers

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

First. It is amazing how few comments their are in this thread.
Second. It seems like it would be tough to determine a HS player's star quality when he is playing against inferior quality teams. It would be interesting to see a qualitative study on how players fare from IMG Academy vs. other respected programs. (I'm assuming IMG has a high school equivalent curriculum as regular high schools)