Josh Heupel and his Vols get Sunday work in on practice field
Tennessee wrapped up week two of fall camp on Sunday morning. It’s typical to hit a wall for the inexperienced players but for some second year Vols it’s about pushing through according to Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel.
“I think the rotation piece is going to be fluid with all of those guys,” Heupel said. “Some of our young guys continue to grow and make some real strides too, Chas Nimrod and Kaleb Webb. The four older guys continue to push and compete. I like what they’ve been doing. They’ve operated really efficiently in what we’re doing offensively and within the scheme of what we’re doing. I think they’re playing with great fundamentals and technique. All in all, I like what they’re doing, and the back half of training camp—we’re essentially at the halfway point as far as pure training camp before we get into school—back half of it will be really important too.”
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Tennessee is extremely deep on the defensive line where the entire group is developing nicely under Rodney Garner.
“The run game part of it, the defensive line, interior and guys on the edge, but I thought our backers did a great job fitting gaps and our safeties were involved in it too,” Heupel said. “For a first scrimmage, I thought there was a positive sign of just our tackling in space. I thought that was a real positive. Defensively as a whole, you guys have heard me say it before, when we got here a lot of the kids that had left the program, not all of them, but a lot of them were on the defensive side of the football. We’ve been thin the first couple of years. We added some depth last year that helped us take a step, in particular in the run defense. Feel like we’re continuing to add some real depth and competition and that leads itself to real competition in practice. Who’s going to be the first one running out, how many snaps each guy is going to play? The competition on the practice field and the meeting rooms are a coach’s best friend and we have that. That’s in the interior, it’s out on the edges too. The athleticism, the ability to rush the passer and not just defend the run, it’s also showing up here in training camp, too. I like some of the strides that we’ve taken.”
Tennessee will be off on Monday before returning to practice on Tuesday.
