National media outlet makes prediction for Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava that should please Vols fans
On Monday, 247Sports' Brad Crawford made 50 quick predictions for the 2024 college football season and his prediction for Tennessee Vols redshirt freshman quarterback Nico Iamaleava is one that will please UT fans. Crawford thinks that Iamaleava will be closer to Hendon Hooker in 2022 than Joe Milton in 2023. From 247Sports: Nico Iamaleava is closer […]
On Monday, 247Sports' Brad Crawford made 50 quick predictions for the 2024 college football season and his prediction for Tennessee Vols redshirt freshman quarterback Nico Iamaleava is one that will please UT fans.
Crawford thinks that Iamaleava will be closer to Hendon Hooker in 2022 than Joe Milton in 2023.
From 247Sports: Nico Iamaleava is closer to Hendon Hooker than Joe Milton: The last two seasons of quarterback play at Tennessee have had the Jekyll and Hyde connotation. The Vols went from an All-SEC player to inconsistency at the position, despite sizable hype and expectations. Now, the former five-star signee Iamaleava faces pressure to perform. And he will with a veteran arsenal around him.
The biggest reason for Tennessee's scoring offense going from No. 1 in the nation in 2022 to No. 37 in the nation in 2023 was the inconsistent quarterback play the program received last year.
Hooker was an elite player who should've been a Heisman finalist in 2022. Milton, meanwhile, was a talented player who was still finding his way as a quarterback, which led to some delayed decision-making….which led to a "slowdown" for the Vols' offense (Tennessee's offense didn't move at the same frantic tempo in 2023 that it did in 2022).
The expectation is that Iamaleava will help the Vols' offense return to the production level that we saw in 2022. We know the talent is there, Iamaleava just has to go out and execute. And it sounds like most folks are expecting that to be the case this fall.
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