'16 D.C. DE/TE Devante Brooks (UT commit 1/15/15)

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engineerVOL said:
I'm glad they didn't ask me my opinion on whether to drop Chance Hall last year.

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We heard your opinion through other filters...Butch didn't get the memo and we're "stuck with him" now. :wink2:
 
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jave36 said:
Just go ahead and shoot all the injured recruits, they'll never play again.
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engineerVOL said:
I'm glad they didn't ask me my opinion on whether to drop Chance Hall last year.

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Good point. I hope Brooks turns out like Hall, but I'll always have my doubts with guys coming in with injuries. This isn't Brooks first major injury either.

My stats show I was skeptical about Tiny.... I wanted him on the team for sure, I was just skeptical about his contributions. I hate to say I was right about him... He did give us a few good games though
 
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engineerVOL said:
I'm glad they didn't ask me my opinion on whether to drop Chance Hall last year.

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I'm in the same boat as you, I was very vocal about us needing to drop him as Achilles aren't something someone just comes back from.

Boy was I wrong. The dumb was certainly flowing through me.
 
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you said:
Good point. I hope Brooks turns out like Hall, but I'll always have my doubts with guys coming in with injuries. This isn't Brooks first major injury either.

My stats show I was skeptical about Tiny.... I wanted him on the team for sure, I was just skeptical about his contributions. I hate to say I was right about him... He did give us a few good games though
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A few good games?
 
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you said:
Correct. His sophomore year. Jr year he didn't help against tough competition. Perhaps you remember Donte Fowler owning him. A big reason we lost to FL.
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I remember Fowler eating up the interior of our line as a D tackle. Tiny was a good Left tackle and I guess you could say the only reason we beat SCar in '13 by keeping Clowney at bay. You can't marginalize every other aspect in the narrative of a loss.
 
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engineerVOL said:
I remember Fowler eating up the interior of our line as a D tackle. Tiny was a good Left tackle and I guess you could say the only reason we beat SCar in '13 by keeping Clowney at bay. You can't marginalize every other aspect in the narrative of a loss.
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Tiny was an amazing LT for us. Fowler didn't own him at all. No one owned him. He didn't win every rep, but he never got owned while he was at UT that I remember.
 
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Isn't Devante also teammates with a top flight DE this cycle that has shown interest?
 
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The only thing that worries me about Devante is that he's had the same injury on the same knee twice now, if I remember correctly.
 
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Vols said:
The only thing that worries me about Devante is that he's had the same injury on the same knee twice now, if I remember correctly.
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I hate it for the kid, but I think he might end up being the next Justin Meredith. TE is a position of concern moving forward. Wolf has everything the NFL looks for in a TE. If he leaves for the draft early, then we'll have a big hole there in 2017 unless Creamer, Jakob, or Austin Pope stands up.
 
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jave36 said:
Tiny was an amazing LT for us. Fowler didn't own him at all. No one owned him. He didn't win every rep, but he never got owned while he was at UT that I remember.
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His only real deficiencies were having bum knees and having a penchant for jumping offsides.

If he'd had healthy knees, he had All-Pro potential.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
His only real deficiencies were having bum knees and having a penchant for jumping offsides.

If he'd had healthy knees, he had All-Pro potential.
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I saw tiny out in public.. And oh my god he was huge. He was 330 pounds of solid muscle no joke. He looked like the hulk, it was insane.
 
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etcolton said:
I saw tiny out in public.. And oh my god he was huge. He was 330 pounds of solid muscle no joke. He looked like the hulk, it was insane.
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Tiny had legs for arms. The absolute perfect build for his position. Ashame his body broke down at such an early age.
 
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etcolton said:
I saw tiny out in public.. And oh my god he was huge. He was 330 pounds of solid muscle no joke. He looked like the hulk, it was insane.
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He was hosting Derrick Henry one day I saw them at a Japanese place in west Knox.. They were both huge. DH was a monster as a high school senior.
 
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