There have been multiple transfers from Power Five programs who have provided significant impacts at Tennessee during the Josh Heupel era, with quarterbacks Hendon Hooker and Joe Milton III being two of the more obvious examples.
Andre Turrentine is still waiting to make his mark.
The 5-foot-11, 195-pound defensive back out of Nashville’s Ensworth High School spent his first two college seasons at Ohio State before transferring to the Volunteers early last summer. He played in all 13 games last year, with most of his action transpiring on special teams or in the secondary after Tennessee had taken commanding leads.
“Obviously you’re going to be a little bit disappointed when you don’t get as much time as you need or would want when you put so much into it as we all do,” Turrentine said Tuesday during a news conference. “I understand it’s a process and that you’ve got to go back to work, and this year I’m looking forward to any opportunities that show up.
“I don’t think it was a talent thing for me. It was just being in a new system with guys who had already been in the system a year.”