One of the highlights of the 2016 Tennessee football season was Derek Barnett getting 13 sacks to surpass Reggie White’s career record for sacks at UT. He broke it by one sack and did it in one less season, which was impressive.
However, Barnett came short of that ever-elusive 15 sacks single-season record that White had in 1983. In fact, he was half a sack behind Jonathan Brown for second place. But he’s on the top 10 list three times, while nobody else is on it more than once.
This year, Tennessee football has another player looking to become a stat machine.