Bye Week Question - Favorite Non-Household name Vol of all time?

[Unconditional Surrender]

Cheese!!!

The all time leading rusher in Tennessee history

 

[Batman1948]

Craig Faulkner

This dude was the best receiver I ever saw at Tennessee. He had Velcro hands and rarely missed anything thrown his way.

 

[deezvols]

Justin Harrell

 

[MEDVOL]

Raynoch "yo a** out" Thompson

 

[me_grag53]

A few old timers to remember. Jackie Walker, Richmond Flowers, Ron Widby.

 

[ScornedPapaVol]

Mark Jones. Played wideout and DB. Helped force a big red zone turnover when we beat Miami in 2003 .

Nice one. He also was a punt returner and ran some reverses for us. Drafted by Tampa Bay in the latter rounds....

 

[MurphyVol]

There were a lot of semi-forgotten or unsung players over the years.

Not a lot of people talk about Charlie Garner as being one of our best all time backs. I think the was probably the most talented we ever had.

Harry Galbreath started every game for 4 years at UT and played about a decade in the NFL.

Mychael Rivera, I believe, had the most yardage of any tight end in UT history.

 

[1Big_Orange_Fan]

I’ll throw out Earnest Fields & Shon Walker. Great set of LBs back in the day that teamed up with more well known Darryl Hardy.

 

[PowerT4me]

Al Dorsey

 

[vol24/7/365]

Travis Henry

 

[vol24/7/365]

Onterrio Smith
Derrick Tinsley
Chris Hannon
Kevin Simon

Yes. Especially Derrick Tinsley. He played offense and defense!

 

[BigBadVol]

Terry Fair and Terry McDaniel.

 

[BigBadVol]

I have two that I think should be mentioned:

Eric Westmoreland (way underrated). Never saw him out of position. Solid tackler. Excellent in pass coverage. Didn't hit like Raynoch, but played his position as well as any Vol ever has. Second team All-SEC and 4 year pro.

Shawn Bryson. Was good enough to start for most any team in the country as a featured back. As the #4 RB, led the '98 team in yds/carry at 9.5 and had 19 receptions for 167 yds. The MAN played his roll as a blocking back extremely well. Lewis, Henry nor Stephens would have racked up the yds. they did in '98 without Bryson. A real team player who I think is greatly under-appreciated. Played 7 yrs. in the NFL.

Excellent post!

 

[Hank Bukowski]

Who is your favorite Vol that anyone outside of Tennessee fandom would likely not know who they were?

Mine? easy…Raynoch Thompson. That guy seemed to be just everywhere while in orange and his name is probably what has stuck with me the most for some reason. Didn’t work out for him the pros too well but he was a great college player for us.

Paul Bain

 

[Boca Vol]

Horace Morris
Mike Whitehead
Billy Williams...or as John Ward called him WILLIAM WILLIAMS!

 

[Savannahbayvol]

Who is your favorite Vol that anyone outside of Tennessee fandom would likely not know who they were?

Mine? easy…Raynoch Thompson. That guy seemed to be just everywhere while in orange and his name is probably what has stuck with me the most for some reason. Didn’t work out for him the pros too well but he was a great college player for us.

Hal Wantland , captain of the 65 team that overcame the deaths of 3 coaches the Monday after the Alabama game to finish 8-1-2 and #7 in the country. The Al Wilson of the 60s.

 

[VawlDave]

Jaylen Reeves Mayben

 

[MHS Rebel]

Chuck Webb

 

[#1fulmerite]

Burney Veazey

Got you all beat!

 

[BigBadVol]

Chuck Webb

The most talented back to ever wear the Orange IMO. Was at the game when he was hurt. Man that injury sucked the air out of the stadium.

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

Wilhoit, Omar Gaither, Denarius Moore.

 

[HoopCreekVol]

Lee Otis Burton

He was diagnosed with some sort of blood disease and had to stop playing football or he would have been mentioned along with Reggie White as one of our all time great D linemen.

He was my suite-mate in North Carrick one summer quarter. Dogs were prohibited, but he had one in his room. Super guy.

What year was this? Vaguely remember the name.

 

[MHS Rebel]

The most talented back to ever wear the Orange IMO. Was at the game when he was hurt. Man that injury sucked the air out of the stadium.

I was there too. A nonsensical injury in a nonconsequential game.

 

[HoopCreekVol]

I'm going to cheat a little and say Terry McDaniel. Despite having a very good pro career he still seems to have a lot of that "Oh yeah! I totally forgot about that guy!" about him.

Remember him well. I worked at the "T-Club" and saw him all the time. Very funny guy. He loved Donkey Kong on those machines.

 

[hndog609]

Remember him well. I worked at the "T-Club" and saw him all the time. Very funny guy. He loved Donkey Kong on those machines.

That's funny.

He could fly. McDaniel might well have more TD saving rundowns than any other UT player.