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Tennessee Vols Only Team to Have Player and Coach at Elite 11 QB Camp

By Caleb Calhoun

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The Tennessee Vols are the only SEC team with a counselor and a commit at the Elite 11 QB Camp Finals this week in Joshua Dobbs and Jarrett Guarantano.

It’s ironic, really, but a school that has had some serious quarterback issues the past few years appears to be more set up than ever for the future.

The Tennessee Vols showed that they have a star quarterback of the present and a star quarterback of the future based on who was sent to the Elite 11 finals during Nike’s The Opening Camp at Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Ore.

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Upcoming junior quarterback Joshua Dobbs has gone as a counselor at the camp. Meanwhile, four-star commit Jarrett Guarantano is one of the finalists there.

And according to a report on Fox Sports, both have shined at the camp.

Dobbs joins J.T. Barrett, Mike Bercovici, Christian Hackenberg, Cody Kessler, Deshaun Watson, Carson Wentz, and Malik Zaire as one of the counselors.

How far the Vols have come from only a few years ago, when they could not find a quarterback on the roster that was halfway decent on a year-to-year basis.

All of a sudden, they are loaded. Lost in these two prospects, who are perfect for running the spread, is Quinten Dormady, who had an amazing spring.

We mentioned in our recruiting evaluations that the Tennessee Vols are absolutely loaded at quarterback and should have no problem with that position for a long time.

This is just another example of that.

Butch Jones has stocked the cupboard for the future, and he is filling it with smart guys who are incredibly athletic at the same time.

So appreciate this Vols fans. Tennessee was spoiled with consistently good quarterback play from 1989 to 2004. It was revived in 2006 and 2007. And it fell off the map after that with the exception of one good year by Tyler Bray.

Now, things are on the way back. And nothing about the Vols return to college football relevance is more evident than their situation at quarterback.

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