Tennessee returned to the football field Tuesday for the first practice of the spring. Noticeably absent from the group? Joshua Dobbs.
It had to be a little strange. Dobbs had taken part in the past four springs. He’d started 31 consecutive games at quarterback, and he played as big a role as anybody in changing the culture at Tennessee. The Volunteers were 14-18 in the 32 games before Dobbs made his first start as a freshman in 2013. In the final 31 games he started? They went 22-9.