Tennessee will kick off its 2023 season on Sept. 2.
The Vols will play Virginia at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. Kickoff is slated for noon EDT and will be televised by ABC.
Following Tennessee’s seventh practice during fall training camp, wide receivers coach Kelsey Pope met with media. Pope discussed wide receivers Chas Nimrod and Kaleb Webb.
“Those two have been very impressive, both though in their own separate ways,” Pope said. “Kaleb is a bigger body, big catch radius, strong, powerful kid. Chas is more agile and very twitchy, but both of those guys have been exceptional.
“My job for those two, they haven’t seen this thing before on our level, so I have to get those guys consistent. Right now, you see flashes all over the place from both of them. Right now, it’s my job to get those guys more consistent so they are making plays consistently. You see it more on a first-second-third down basis, it is not just showing one series to the next.”
Nimrod enters his second season with the Vols. The redshirt freshman appeared in two games and did not record any statistics in 2022. He played in eight offensive snaps versus Vanderbilt and 18 against UT Martin.
Webb enters his second season at Tennessee. He played in three games (Ball State, UT Martin, Vanderbilt) and did not record any statistics last season.
