Tennessee scores an average of The Vols lead the nation running 2. Georgia: DT Jordan Davis. Tennessee: QB Hendon Hooker. The graduate transfer from Virginia Tech is fourth nationally with a Walk-on Gaston Moore , the transfer from UCF who ran the Knights' scout team last season, joined Hooker and Milton as the Vols traveled three quarterbacks as they normally have for road games this season.
Moore is one of three walk-on quarterbacks on the roster. Tennessee's quarterback position right now is all about Hooker, who ranks second in the SEC and fourth in the FBS in passer rating He's on pace to obliterate the single-season program rating for passer rating, currently held by Darryl Dickey in Hooker, who's thrown 21 touchdown passes with just two interceptions on the season, on Tuesday was named one of 16 semifinalists for the Davey O'Brien Award given annually to the best quarterback in college football.
Tennessee had its top backfield tandem healthy at the same time for just the fifth time this season against Kentucky. Naturally it didn't end that way as Wright finish the game. Evans, who has missed two games Pittsburgh and Ole Miss this season, appeared to re-tweak his troublesome ankle on his only official carry of the game, while Small, who also has missed all of two games Tennessee Tech and South Carolina and most of a third Missouri , was on the sideline late in the game, presumably after his shoulder injury flared up again.
Whitehead has missed the past two games after picking up an injury against Ole Miss Dee Beckwith has taken his place on the travel roster , so it was Wright who was forced into action in the fourth quarter. The freshman has been dealing with a toe injury himself and hadn't played since the Missouri game in early October, but he delivered when called upon, rushing for 50 yards on seven carries with runs of 12 and 21 yards on one drive.
He had some issues in pass-protection and nearly caused a fumble, but his play was a nice surprise. I thought he adjusted to the speed of it, made really good decisions.
But overall he executed and performed extremely well. Did a great job taking care of the football, too. Tennessee's Big Three of Jones, Tillman and Payton continue to get the job done and all three played key roles in the win at Kentucky. Payton took a quick throw to the perimeter and turned it into a yard touchdown his second score of that distance this season on the game's first play, Jones had his second yard game and scored a yard touchdown in the first quarter and Tillman had three catches on the key sequence just before halftime and two receptions in a row, the first a yarder and the second a 6-yard toe-tapping touchdown on the next snap.
In the five games since the Vols shortened their receiver rotation after the loss at Florida , Payton has seven catches for yards The sub snap count for Tennessee's offense led to even fewer opportunities as Keyton played eight snaps and Hyatt only five, though he had a yard catch on one of them.
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