Tennessee’s quarterbacks coach Joey Halzle provides his assessments of the Vols’ signal-callers.
“To me, there’s a huge sense of urgency. You want to start gearing and shaping the offense toward who that guy is and having a plan for who the next one is. Because you, obviously, have to prepare. You have a Plan A, and then you got to have a Plan B, and this time, this COVID thing is still real, so you have to have a Plan C. Maybe a Plan D even, so I would like to get a pecking order as fast as we can. We’re going to give all of those guys a really honest fair shake at this thing early, and then the pressure is on to at least get your top two to a point where you can start to split those reps. We’ll have a really good idea. Like I said, a week or week and a half is my goal, to at least have a top two, maybe three, narrowed down to a top two.” —Vols’ offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Alex Golesh on identifying a quarterback to get more reps during fall training camp
Quarterback
- Joe Milton III
- Hendon Hooker or Harrison Bailey
- Gaston Moore
“For Joe, Hendon and Harrison, some of it’s tough because you’re not in a live situation, either you have to make a play or you have to get out of the pocket in those types of scenarios. I thought all of them did a great job of taking care of the football, being efficient in calling it. For the most part, I thought their decision making in what we’re doing in the run game and controlling the pass game was pretty solid. At the end of the day, I don’t think we collectively, offensively, strung things together the way that we need to. Some of that is just 11 guys, all doing their job at a really high level. It’s not just one position and one guy, it was a little bit of everything at all points. Through the first seven days, I thought all those guys have competed really well and been really sound decision makers.” — Josh Heupel on the quarterbacks following Tennessee’s first scrimmage during fall training camp
BJ Payne discusses Gaston Moore transferring from UCF to Tennessee
NEXT: Vols’ projected offensive depth chart (Running backs)