Tennessee held its sixth practice of the spring Saturday on a gorgeous afternoon in Knoxville. The media was only allowed about 10 minutes of viewing, but here were the VolQuest.com observations...
* Let’s start with the quarterbacks, where Jarrett Guarantano had his sharpest session of routes on air I’ve seen this spring. The rising redshirt sophomore was on the money with both long and intermediate throws.
Marquez Callaway dropped a perfectly thrown nine route, but otherwise, none of Guarantano’s passes hit the ground when I was watching. David Johnson and Tyson Helton were complimentary of Alontae Taylor, Brandon Johnson and Latrell Williams during the route-tree. Helton did make Williams re-do a route a rep, simulating exactly what he wanted from a specific arrow route inside.
* Kevin Sherrer was not pleased with his inside linebackers Saturday. Solon Page, Will Ignont and Shanon Reid all drew Sherrer’s ire in various manors. Similarly, Chris Rumph remained all over Jordan Allen, who had to do up-downs, and Ryan Thaxton, forced to do pushups. Rumph was pleased with Darrell Taylor and Austin Smith, saying at one point during strike drills, “Good! Don’t be nice.”
* The tight ends were once again not involved in the routes on air period, but Brian Niedermeyer was throwing passes to his unit during one drill.
* The OL was working on install with combo-blocks in the run game. Like Walt Wells, Will Friend is ALL OVER that group. Ryan Johnson saw a bit of work at LG today, too, working tandem blocks with Drew Richmond at LT.
* As reported this morning, there were a TON of recruits on campus today. I saw 5-star ATH Arik Gilbert, 4-star WR Porter Rooks, 4-star QB Harrison Bailey, RB Kimini Vidal (teammates with Bailey and Gilbert, has LSU/South Carolina offers), 2019 DB Martin Emerson, 2019 DB Aaron Beasley, 2019 LB Trezman Marshall and 4-star OL Justin Rodgers, a Michigan native whose offers include Ohio State, FSU, Alabama and UM.
* Tennessee’s disabled list names remained the same: Todd Kelly Jr., Jauan Jennings, Darrin Kirkland, DJ Henderson and Trey Smith. Tight end Austin Pope, who made a couple one-handed catches at practice Thursday, was working with Fitzgerald on the side before practice with a heavy wrap on his left hand.
* Special visitors at Saturday’s practice included Johnny Majors, Alvin Kamara and Jason Croom.
* Let’s start with the quarterbacks, where Jarrett Guarantano had his sharpest session of routes on air I’ve seen this spring. The rising redshirt sophomore was on the money with both long and intermediate throws.
Marquez Callaway dropped a perfectly thrown nine route, but otherwise, none of Guarantano’s passes hit the ground when I was watching. David Johnson and Tyson Helton were complimentary of Alontae Taylor, Brandon Johnson and Latrell Williams during the route-tree. Helton did make Williams re-do a route a rep, simulating exactly what he wanted from a specific arrow route inside.
* Kevin Sherrer was not pleased with his inside linebackers Saturday. Solon Page, Will Ignont and Shanon Reid all drew Sherrer’s ire in various manors. Similarly, Chris Rumph remained all over Jordan Allen, who had to do up-downs, and Ryan Thaxton, forced to do pushups. Rumph was pleased with Darrell Taylor and Austin Smith, saying at one point during strike drills, “Good! Don’t be nice.”
* The tight ends were once again not involved in the routes on air period, but Brian Niedermeyer was throwing passes to his unit during one drill.
* The OL was working on install with combo-blocks in the run game. Like Walt Wells, Will Friend is ALL OVER that group. Ryan Johnson saw a bit of work at LG today, too, working tandem blocks with Drew Richmond at LT.
* As reported this morning, there were a TON of recruits on campus today. I saw 5-star ATH Arik Gilbert, 4-star WR Porter Rooks, 4-star QB Harrison Bailey, RB Kimini Vidal (teammates with Bailey and Gilbert, has LSU/South Carolina offers), 2019 DB Martin Emerson, 2019 DB Aaron Beasley, 2019 LB Trezman Marshall and 4-star OL Justin Rodgers, a Michigan native whose offers include Ohio State, FSU, Alabama and UM.
* Tennessee’s disabled list names remained the same: Todd Kelly Jr., Jauan Jennings, Darrin Kirkland, DJ Henderson and Trey Smith. Tight end Austin Pope, who made a couple one-handed catches at practice Thursday, was working with Fitzgerald on the side before practice with a heavy wrap on his left hand.
* Special visitors at Saturday’s practice included Johnny Majors, Alvin Kamara and Jason Croom.
