KNOXVILLE — Jarrett Guarantano enters his redshirt senior season at Tennessee.
The Lodi, New Jersey native has put in a lot of work during the offseason — an offseason that took place in a global pandemic.
Guarantano stood at 6-foot-4, 218-pounds last season and enters the 2020 campaign at 6-foot-4, 230-pounds.
The redshirt senior signal-caller met with media Friday on a Zoom call and discussed the weight he added in the offseason.
“Going into the offseason, me and Coach (Chris) Weinke decided on some things that I wanted to work on and some things that I wanted to progress in and one of those things was to put on weight and to get my speed back a little bit,” Guarantano said of adding 12 pounds during the offseason. “So, throughout the whole offseason it was kind of weird doing it, but I had my mom on my weight gain program, and she helped me out a lot with that.”
Tennessee will kick off the upcoming season Sept. 26 at South Carolina. Kick off is slated for 7:30 p.m. ET and will be televised by SEC Network.