Tennessee football: 10 Vols who should be in CFB Hall of Fame

Johnny Majors made Tennessee football Wide Receiver U, but Larry Seivers started it under Bill Battle as an All-American in 1975 and 1976.

One of the guys on the Hall of Fame ballot this year, Larry Seivers isn’t among Tennessee football’s greatest receivers of all time. Willie Gault, who is also on the ballot, Stanley Morgan, Carl Pickens, Joey Kent, Marcus Nash, Peerless Price and Robert Meachem would all be higher on the list. However, Seivers’ success, like Ricky Townsend’s is relative.

In three years with the Vols, Seivers caught 117 passes for 1,924 yards and eight touchdowns. He had 41 catches for 840 yards and 51 catches for 737 yards in 1975 and 1976, earning him All-American honors both years. Playing in the veer with a banged up Condredge Holloway that last year made those stats all the more impressive.

There were notable receivers before Seivers, such as Lester McClain and Richmond Flowers, and Morgan was his teammate. However, he was defining what it truly meant to be a pure receiver at the college level in the 1970s before it really began to take off.

With that level of success and the recognition he has received, Seivers has done more than enough to get into the College Football Hall of Fame. He should have been voted in years ago, and he should be inducted this year if the voters are to ever be taken seriously.