Redshirt sophomore Dayne Davis enters his third season at Tennessee.
The 6-foot-7, 325-pound offensive lineman was placed on a full scholarship in December. He was a walk-on during the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
Following the Vols’ fifth spring practice, first-year Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel discussed Davis and him receiving first group reps at left tackle.
“The guy has just been rock solid since we’ve gotten here, in the way that he competes, his attention to detail and how he competes out on the practice field,” Heupel said of Davis. “Those guys get graded every day, and the rotation up front, practice one, was based off of how they graded out in everything that they were doing every day leading up to spring ball. Now you get graded every day in practice, and based on that, that kind of sets the rotation as far as whether you’re playing with the ones, twos or threes for the day. He’s a guy that’s going to compete really hard.
“I think up front we have some flexibility with some of the guys that could play left or play right. They’ve had some experience doing that, but the biggest thing to me is just our players learning how to play snap to the echo of the whistle. There’s a lot of different schemes you can use, but at the end of the day, it’s about your effort. We use the word attack here inside of our program, and our kids are learning to do that. He’s a guy that’s been really consistent in the way he plays from snap to whistle.”
Davis played at Sullivan East High School in Bluff City, Tennessee.
He is majoring in business analytics.
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