I don't know if there's a chip on their shoulder necessarily, but it's a part of the reason why we continue to get better." Josh Heupel, Hendon Hooker and the unbeaten Vols face their biggest test yet Saturday at Georgia.
"I think it reveals the character and the competitiveness of those individuals too. "I think everything that everybody's gone through before they got here or while they were here is a part of the fabric of who they are," said Tennessee coach Josh Heupel, himself a castoff from Oklahoma, his alma mater. Up and down Tennessee's roster, there are castoffs, transfers who were given up on by their previous schools, breakout players who have seemingly come out of nowhere, players who have battled through adversity or were spurned during the high school recruiting process and coaches who were fired. "That has a way of bringing a team together because you know what the guy beside you had to do just to get here." "A lot of guys on this team were told what they weren't or what they couldn't do," said junior receiver Jalin Hyatt, who leads the nation with 14 touchdown catches. Put simply, it's a team with a lot more five-star stories than five-star recruits. 1 spot in the first College Football Playoff rankings heading into Saturday's showdown with No. So just who are these Vols, other than a team that has risen from the football ashes over the past decade and a half to grab the No. That's a big part of what's made us who we are." "It wasn't an easy path, but a lot of guys on this team didn't have easy paths. But I stayed in shape and never gave up on my dream of playing college football," said Young, a 24-year-old senior outside linebacker and the Vols' top pass-rusher. "I wasn't on anybody's radar, at least not on anybody's football radar. He'd also done some moonlighting at Burger King and later worked some night shifts at a Circle K convenience store.
At the time, Young was working long hours as an assistant manager at Dollar General in Columbus, Georgia. It was a flyer publicizing open tryouts for the Georgia Military School football team. Byron Young was on his way back from a workout at Planet Fitness in January 2019 when he noticed a flyer that changed his life, and ultimately, helped change the trajectory of Tennessee's football program.
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