It was one of the biggest surprises of the preseason. A Tennessee football offensive lineman being on any preseason watch list made no sense after last year, when the unit was historically bad as a whole and then lost its best blocker.
What’s more shocking, though, is that the one player from the historically bad unit to make a preseason watch list was a guy who is coming off a season-ending injury. Brandon Kennedy, who figures to resume his role as a starting center this year, was knocked out for the year after just one game against the West Virginia Mountaineers.