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Joshua Dobbs, Curt Maggitt, Cameron Sutton, and Derek Barnett all on Preseason All-SEC Teams

By Caleb Calhoun

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Four Tennessee Vols made 2015 preseason All-SEC voted on by SEC Media Days attendees, including Josh Dobbs, Curt Maggitt, Cameron Sutton and Derek Barnett.

One Tennessee Volunteer made the 2015 Preseason All-SEC First Team, and three others were mentioned in some capacity.

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As voted on by the media members who attended SEC Media Days, the teams released Friday included linebacker Curt Maggitt on the Preseason All-SEC First Team Defense.

Two other defenders, defensive end Derek Barnett and defensive back Cameron Sutton, made Preseason All-SEC Second Team, and on offense, Quarterback Joshua Dobbs was the only Vol to be mentioned, making Preseason All-SEC Third Team.

See the full list here.

Obviously, Maggitt, Barnett, and Sutton have earned the recognition they are getting and will be keys to the Vol defense this yea.

But putting Dobbs there at all given that to this point he has not accomplished much speaks to the lack of quarterbacks in the SEC right now.

Even more shocking, though, is that lack of quarterback play is so bad that he should probably be second-team, ahead of Auburn’s Jeremy Johnson.

Dak Prescott clearly deserves to be First Team.

It’s also a little odd that Jalen Hurd did not get in there somehow. He does not belong on the First Team over Leonard Fournette or Nick Chubb, but the second and third teams each have an Alabama and Arkansas running back, all of whom start by committee.

That’s not to say Hurd won’t start by committee, but he has certainly proven himself to be worthy of one of the spots in the 2015 Preseason All-SEC.

The Vols were second in the East in terms of number of All-SEC players to only Georgia, but they were tied for eighth in the conference overall.

Alabama led everybody with 13 All-SEC selections, including six First-Teamers. Auburn had 10, LSU had eight (with Fournette on there twice), Georgia had seven, Texas A&M had six (with Speedy Noil mentioned twice), Ole Miss had six, Arkansas had six, Mississippi State had four, South Carolina had three (with Pharoh Cooper mentioned three times), Florida had three, and Kentucky and Missouri each had two. Vanderbilt had none.

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