Tennessee’s running back room was dealt an early blow to open camp, losing Len’Neth Whitehead to a season-ending injury. The situation changes the depth chart a bit with just one month left to sort everything out.
The good news here is that Tennessee is set to be anchored by veteran tailback Jabari Small. However, as we saw at a few points last season, injuries happen. It’s football after all — so where does that leave Tennessee when the inevitable occurs?
Jaylen Wright is the natural candidate to be the No. 2 back, coming off of a freshman season where he was thrown into the fire.