KNOXVILLE — The gray Tennessee football jersey Jauan Jennings wore Saturday was entirely misleading.
For the Orange and White Game, the Volunteers who were off limits for contact traded green practice jerseys for the alternate third jerseys, but Jennings was the only one of Tennessee’s three quarterbacks whom defensive players could hit.
And that was fine by the freshman.
“I definitely wanted to be live,” he told the Times Free Press after the spring game. “Being live, I feel like for me, brings out my full potential. Obviously there’s still a lot of things I’ve got to work on being a quarterback at this level.
“But I know I can get there with the work ethic I have and the support and the base I have in my family and people who trust and believe that I can be a quarterback at this level.