It was Hinden Hooker to Joe Milton.

Nico Imaliava to Joey Aguilar.

Now it could be George McIntyre or Faison Brandon.

Derek Baker is a quarterback of the future.

We're talking Tennessee quarterbacks right here on your Friday.

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Hey, good Friday morning, everybody. Welcome into Locked on Vols. I am your host, Eric Kane, a member of the VaultQuest.com team here in town covering your Tennessee Volunteers.

We are a part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every single day, the number one sports podcasting network available. Today's episode is presented by the great people over at Fandall's sports book, where you can turn that energy into bigger potential wins with a college basketball parlay profit boost. Head on over to fandle.com to go ahead and get started today. I'm going to talk about Derek Owing, the director of sports performance and what he's doing with nutritionist Katie O'Connell, O'Connor at Tennessee, removing fried foods, no more gatorades with full sugar, all that and how that can impact Tennessee's strength, conditioning, and fueling the body coming up in segment number three. But first, I wanted to bring on Brian Smith.

Let's talk about quarterbacks here in segment one and some other star players that Brian

is looking out for that could help Tennessee contribute in 2026 coming up in the fall.

But the quarterbacks dominate the conversation.

George McIntyre, you and I have talked about him before,

but you have covered and been to camps and watched Faison Brandon play a ton.

Faison Brandon is obviously in contention to be Tennessee's starting quarterback this fall.

Ryan Smith, host of Locked on the Portal. I want to get your thoughts on Fason.

When you were covering him as a prep quarterback, what were your thoughts on phazon what's your when you were covering him as a prep quarterback what were your thoughts on phase on he's as athletic as you're going to get uh kind of like a human

rubber band he's a kid that can roll left throw back across his body and make a play he's got

the arm strength to throw from the pocket and make, you know,

the deep out, no problem. He just had to learn all the nuances because the high school that he

was at, they completely overwhelm those teams with talent, like just like Florida State late 90s

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