Russ Huesman will lose 13 players from the 2015 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team that won nine games and the program’s third consecutive Southern Conference championship before falling in the Football Championship Subdivision round of 16 to top-ranked Jacksonville State in overtime.
So how will the 2016 version look?
The Times Free Press takes a position-by-position glance at the outlook for next season’s team.
QUARTERBACK
Replacing the most decorated quarterback in the history of the program is, no doubt, a daunting task. Jacob Huesman, a three-time SoCon offensive player of the year, started 48 games in his career and accounted for 12,248 yards and 107 touchdowns. The next player in line is rising junior Alejandro Bennifield, who completed five of his eight passes in 2015 for 139 yards and two scores. Coach Huesman said during the season that “people don’t realize how good of a quarterback Bennifield is going to be here.”