Tennessee kicked off fall training camp Monday at Haslam Field under second-year head coach Josh Heupel.
Ahead of the Vols’ first practice in fall training camp, Heupel discussed Tennessee having a veteran quarterback returning in Hendon Hooker.
“There is competition every day,” Heupel said. “He is competing against himself and certainly against the others, too. At the end of the day, the trust that we have in him, not just as coaches but players around him, his leadership and his energy, all of those things are extremely important to us hitting the ground tomorrow and continuing to climb and grow as we reset the button for the 2022 season and become what we are capable of hopefully.
“His command of the offense is something that is extremely important. All of the guys have continued to grow through the course of the summer. Joe (Milton III) is in a much better position than he was a year ago than when he started the season. Hendon and Joe both talked about how close those guys are. They compete in a really positive way together, but they support each other too. For us and our program, it certainly is a luxury to have a guy that has a lot of time on task in game situations, has command of what we are doing. A year ago, I thought he made great improvements in some subtle things from the end of the regular season to the bowl game. He’s continued to climb during the course of the offseason. He is very purposeful and excited about what he’s done.”
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