KNOXVILLE – Three of the four team captains Tennessee’s football team picked for the 2016 season have been with the Volunteers nearly as long as fourth-year head coach Butch Jones.
The fourth, however, hasn’t even been with the program half that long.
Alvin Kamara needed only one season and a little more than a year on campus to ascend to an important leadership role alongside quarterback Josh Dobbs, linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin and cornerback Cameron Sutton, three members of Tennessee’s 2013 signing class.
“It means a lot,” Kamara said after Saturday’s Orange & White Game. “Being here the shortest amount of time and being voted by my teammates – because that’s what it was, a team vote – to be a captain, it means a lot. It just means that I earned the respect of my teammates and my coaches, and it speaks volumes to the program.
“I’m ready to take it head on.”