Tennessee's football roster is really good, but does it have the capability of making up for two young quarterbacks?

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I am Brian Smith, along with Eric Kane.

Thank you very much, Mr. Kane, for joining in today to talk all things,

balls, understanding the roster that has been constructed through high school,

the portal, NILIL after spring practice.

It's totally different before we have our thoughts.

But now that you have seen it, we're going to delve into it.

And we'll get into the quarterback battle here in a little bit.

But first, Eric, where would you say the roster is in terms of expectation if you take

quarterback out? Is there any spot that is not up to Tennessee snuff or is there any spot that is maybe even better than you thought? What do you got for me? Yeah, I mean, I like the roster. I do. I mean, this is going on year six of Josh Heiple and, you know, you're, you feel really good about the depth in certain areas. And I mean, there's certain position groups that got to play better than what they did last year for sure. But I think there's some defensive linemen that you feel good about coming out of spring. You feel so much better. I mean, like it was kind of a, you had no, you had no clue what you were going to get in the secondary, right? It's a brand new defense,

completely overhaul in the secondary that was really bad last year. You go out and get a bunch of guys via the transfer portal to kind of be your frontline starters, but you had no clue about who's behind

them and, you know, defense is best when it's a rotational position aside of the football. And

I think the secondary performed really, really well in spring. So that's

very encouraging. Offensive line, certain parts, again, you know spring practice. This guy's not

practicing this day. And, you know, this guy's, you're, you're reping against the first team

defense or the second. I mean, it's not always a clean look of football. But I thought the

offensive line did miss, you know,

one of its starting guards all spring long, but, you know, struggled in pass pro in the

interior points in times, but I think overall that offensive line should be better than what it was

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