Tennessee football: Ranking all six QBs at start of 2021 spring practice
Sophomore. Harrison Bailey. 2. player. Scouting Report. Pick Analysis. Marietta, Ga.. 839
6’5″ 220 pounds
Last year, Harrison Bailey started two games for Tennessee football and appeared in numerous others. In many ways, he lived up to his hype as a 2020 five-stat recruit out of Marietta High School in Georgia, and he could still be the future for Rocky Top.
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Bailey completed 48-of-68 passes for 578 yards, averaging eight and a half yards an attempt. He also had four touchdowns and two interceptions. However, he consistently got sacked last year because of his poor pocket presence, always holding onto the ball too long. That was the one thing that kept him from winning the starting job outright.
Given the fact that Bailey is the only pure pocket passer on scholarship, that’s not a good weakness for him to have. However, playing in Josh Heupel’s tempo-based system should knock that bad habit out of him. He’ll be asked to get rid of the ball quickly, and he’ll often know his reads much earlier than he did in Jim Chaney’s system.
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Taking those things into account, Bailey’s pinpoint accuracy puts him in the second best position of any quarterback on the Vols’ roster. His potential is still through the roof, and if he improves his pocket presence, he could become a superstar.