‘It would have been dicey with both of them last week’ – Vols insider gives positive injury update on two key Tennessee starters
The Tennessee Vols’ bye week came at the perfect time. According to VolQuest’s Brent Hubbs, the Vols may have been without a couple of key starters had there been a game last weekend.
The Tennessee Vols’ first bye week of the season came at the perfect time (Tennessee will have a second bye week on November 8).
Tennessee’s football team was pretty banged up after opening the season with five straight games.
If the Vols had played last weekend, in fact, they may have been without a couple of starting offensive linemen.
Vols insider says a couple of Tennessee’s starting offensive linemen may not have played if there had been a game last Saturday
VolQuest’s Brent Hubbs joined 104.5 The Zone’s Ramon and Will on Friday and he pointed out that starting center Sam Pendleton and starting guard/tackle Jesse Perry both suffered injuries in Tennessee’s win against the Mississippi State Bulldogs in late September.
“Both of those guys (Pendleton and Perry) are going to go. They’ll be ready to go (against Arkansas),” said Hubbs. “They’re not on the injury report. They have been a full go since the middle of this week. Both of them spent time last week in a walking boot. It would have been dicey, I think, with both of them last week, because of what they were dealing with.
“Sam Pendleton went into the injury tent and basically looked at the trainer and said, ‘Don’t touch my shoe, don’t take my shoe off — just tape it. Tape it as tight as you can tape it. I got to go play.’ Jesse Perry was in the injury tent, but because they helped him off, they took his shoe off, and he was the most restless guy in the tent, because he just wanted it taped to get back on the field. And both those guys got taped up as tight as they can get them taped. Pendleton didn’t miss a snap, and Jesse Perry missed 11 (snaps) I think, something like that. He missed the end of that drive, but he ended up being back out there at the end of the game as well. So just tough guys, both of those are kind of old school throwback guys.”
According to Hubbs, the expectation for this weekend against Arkansas is that Perry, who started the first five games of the season at right tackle, will move back inside to guard, and true freshman David Sanders will get his first start at right tackle (Sanders missed the first four games of the season due to injury before making his debut against Mississippi State when Perry was injured).
Moving Sanders into the starting lineup will bump guard Shad Umarov into a backup role.
The Vols are getting healthy for the second half of the season. And that’s obviously very important — the playoff push starts now for Tennessee.
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