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Tennessee football: Surprises from Vols season-opening depth chart

By Caleb Calhoun

COLUMBIA, MISSOURI - NOVEMBER 23: Head coach Jeremy Pruitt of the Tennessee Volunteers leads his team to to the field prior to a game against the Missouri Tigers at Faurot Field/Memorial Stadium on November 23, 2019 in Columbia, Missouri. (Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images)
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI - NOVEMBER 23: Head coach Jeremy Pruitt of the Tennessee Volunteers leads his team to to the field prior to a game against the Missouri Tigers at Faurot Field/Memorial Stadium on November 23, 2019 in Columbia, Missouri. (Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images) /
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3. Jordan Allen’s name absent at tight end

Remember, Jordan Allen was a four-star junior college transfer edge rusher in 2018 for Tennessee football. He helped highlight some of Jeremy Pruitt’s early successes. However, he played sparingly that year and then missed all of 2019 due to injury. This past season, Pruitt converted him to tight end and suggested lots of reason for excitement behind the move.

With Dominick Wood-Anderson gone, Jackson Lowe entering the transfer portal, Austin Pope banged up and Jim Chaney liking to run multiple tight ends, it seemed like the perfect chance for Allen, who stands at 6’4″ 241 pounds, to get into the rotation. He has the build and the physical tools to be effective at the position.

Given the fact that Darrell Taylor has graduated, Pruitt wouldn’t move Allen to tight end with new position coach Joe Osovet unless he saw some value for the guy there. Well, it looks like he’s not getting a look there. Pruitt’s depth chart shows that either redshirt junior Princeton Fant or redshirt sophomore Jacob Warren or redshirt freshman Sean Brown will start at the position.

Allen’s name was nowhere to be found on the depth chart. Will that change later in the year? It could, and Pruitt said he was another one of the guys working out at the position. His name not showing up, however, is surprising. Fant is the most proven there, so he’ll likely get the nod, but you would’ve thought Allen would at least be in the rotation.

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