Tennessee Football Extends Two Defensive Assistants Before Spring Practice
Tennessee has finalized extensions for two defensive assistant coaches before spring football begins on Monday morning. Tennessee secondary coach Willie Martinez and defensive line coach Rodney Garner have both received a one-year extension to their current contracts, Rocky Top Insider learned through documents acquired by a Freedom of Information Act request. On3 Sports’ VolQuest was […]
Tennessee Players ‘Taking More Pride’ In Getting Vols Back To Program’s Heights
When Josh Heupel and his staff arrived in Knoxville in the winter of 2021, Tennessee football’s program decline seemed never ending. After over a decade of struggles, Tennessee had hit another rock bottom. Josh Heupel took over a program coming off a 3-7 season and in the midst of an NCAA investigation. Heupel was the […]
What Tennessee Coaches Said About Missouri This Week
Tennessee is preparing for a critical SEC matchup this weekend as the Vols travel to Columbia to face Missouri. The Tigers are in the midst of their best season in years as Eliah Drinkwitz squad enters the matchup 7-2 (3-2 SEC). Third-year coach Josh Heupel and defensive line coach Rodney Garner met with the media […]
What Josh Heupel, Tennessee Assistant Coaches Said About South Carolina
Tennessee football is just four days away from its critical SEC home opener against South Carolina. The Vols dropped their SEC opener at Florida two weeks ago and are looking for a critical conference win before their early October open date. South Carolina enters the matchup 2-2 after playing an extremely difficult schedule to open […]
Tennessee’s Rodney Garner and Jerry Mack Talk South Carolina Game During Tuesday Press Conference
Tennessee defensive line coach Rodney Garner and running backs coach Jerry Mack both met with the media in Knoxville on Tuesday morning ahead of the Vols’ game against South Carolina this Saturday night. No. 21 Tennessee will host South Carolina at 7:30 p.m. ET this Saturday in a revenge game after last season’s loss to […]
Tennessee Football Defensive Line Recruiting Entering Pivotal Five Day Stretch
As football season quickly approaches, Tennessee football’s 2024 recruiting class is in a good spot. Josh Heupel’s fourth recruiting class in Knoxville contains 19 commits, 14 blue-chips, and sits right outside the nation’s top 10 according to the 247sports team rankings. But one area of weakness is defensive line. Tennessee has just three defensive line […]
Rodney Garner Aiming For New Growth Alongside Elijah Simmons’ New Number
Ever since he arrived to the Tennessee football program as a freshman in 2019, defensive lineman Elijah Simmons has been a fan favorite. The 6-foot-2, 340-pound lineman is a force of nature on the defensive line when things are working in his favor. Simmons has the ability to wreck an opposing offensive line, take down […]
Improved Mentality Helping Two Tennessee Defensive Linemen Take A Step Forward
Tennessee’s defensive line has had an abundance of solid players over the last two years. Good SEC defensive linemen that helped the Vols boast one of the SEC’s best run defenses a season ago. But that room has had few elite players— the type of guys you have to have on the line of scrimmage […]
‘On You About Every Little Thing’: Tennessee Freshmen DL Discuss Rodney Garner
Playing for Tennessee defensive line coach Rodney Garner isn’t for the faint of heart. Garner has been coaching defensive line in the SEC for over 30 years and still coaches his players in an old school nature. “De-recruiting” is an old college coaching phrase. After positively recruiting a high school prospect for months or even […]
Tennessee Defensive Tackle Enters Transfer Portal
Tennessee defensive lineman Da’Jon Terry entered the transfer portal Friday evening, On3’s Matt Zenitz first reported. Terry has been an active member of the Vols’ interior defensive line rotation over the last two seasons after transferring from Kansas to Tennessee to play for Josh Heupel and his staff. The mammoth 6-foot-4, 321 pound defensive tackle […]