KNOXVILLE – For the first time in his college football career, Shy Tuttle has made it to November.
Not only is the junior defensive tackle still healthy as Tennessee enters the last quarter of its schedule, starting with Saturday’s game at Missouri, Tuttle is playing arguably the best football of his career.
More than his five tackles in last week’s 24-10 win over Southern Mississippi, what impresses Volunteers coach Butch Jones about Tuttle is everything he overcame in pursuit of a return to football that seemed uncertain this time last year.
“This individual has been through so much,” Jones said Wednesday.
Tennessee junior defensive lineman Shy Tuttle has twice worked through difficult rehabilitation to return from injuries.After breaking his leg in October of his freshman year, Tuttle was carted off the field with a serious knee injury during Tennessee’s loss at South Carolina last October. The former five-star prospect had already worked for months to return from one debilitating injury. Now he was faced with the prospect of doing so again.