A former Tennessee quarterback who even die-hard Vols fans may have trouble remembering made a sneaky cameo in the opening minutes of the season debut of HBO’s “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks.”

I mean, it’s a deep cut that only Vols sickos will remember.

During Seahawks head coach Mike MacDonald’s first team meeting ahead of training camp, he recognized some important “offseason wins” for players and coaches — such as weddings and birth announcements.

One of the birth announcements was for a newborn named George Luke Chryst.

Young George is the son of former Tennessee quarterback Keller Chryst, who joined the Seahawks’ coaching staff in 2025 (Chryst is listed as a defensive quality control coach for the 2026 season).

Chryst started his college career at Stanford before transferring to Tennessee in 2018 for his final season of eligibility. He appeared in eight games for the Vols while playing under Jeremy Pruitt. Chryst passed for 450 yards and three touchdowns during his lone season on Rocky Top.

While Chryst didn’t have a particularly memorable career with the Vols, he actually had an important impact on Tennessee football history.

During the 2018 recruiting cycle, the Vols opted to sign only one high school quarterback — which was three-star quarterback JT Shrout.

Tennessee had a commitment from current Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr, but Pruitt’s staff cut him loose in part because they decided to sign only one high school quarterback. That’s because Tennessee was pursuing Chryst and current Arizona Cardinals quarterback Gardner Minshew, who were both grad transfers.

Penix ended up becoming a First-Team All-American at Washington after starting his career at Indiana. He guided the Huskies to the National Championship game in 2023, which Washington lost to Michigan.