Tennessee Vols freshman defensive backs Emmanuel Moseley (12) and D’Andre Payne (2) face off in a drill Thursday afternoon.KNOXVILLE – With dozens of high school football coaches in attendance for Tennessee’s annual spring coaching clinic, the Volunteers prepped for Saturday’s third spring scrimmage at Haslam Field on Thursday afternoon.
Tennessee is wrapping up its penultimate week of spring football, and here are some notes and observations from Thursday’s work.
• Freshman cornerback Emmanuel Moseley probably had the play of the day during the open period of practice. As head coach Butch Jones likes to do, the Vols broke from their stretching period into the circle drill then into some receiver-defensive one-on-ones from the 5-yard line.
Matched up with budding star sophomore Marquez North, Moseley, the wiry speedster from North Carolina, got a hand on the ball and knocked it away as it appeared North was going to haul in a fade pass thrown well into the back corner of the end zone by quarterback Josh Dobbs.
Moseley got up to make an emphatic incomplete pass signal before the rest of his position group greeted him with congratulations, and even receivers coach Zach Azzanni woofed, “Nice job, Moseley!” The January enrollee continues to get first-team work opposite Cam Sutton.