Tennessee practiced for the second time during fall training camp Tuesday at Haslam Field.
Following practice, freshman wide receiver Squirrel White met with media.
White explained the backstory behind his nickname.
“My great-grandma named me that when I was a baby when she was holding me, so there was a squirrel in her garden and it picked her tomatoes,” White said. “When the squirrel moved, I moved at the same time, so she just started calling me that.”
“Squirrel is competitive, really smart and mature in the way that he handles himself in the building, in the meeting room and physically taking care of his body,” Heupel said. “His ability for the game not to be moving too fast, really almost from day one, in the way that he has handled what we do offensively.
“He needs to have a great camp for us and I believe that he will. He is truly fearless. He’s not the biggest guy, but he is fearless. He is going to stick his face in any physical situation that he needs to.”
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