Let’s first congratulate Nigel Warrior. The son of Tennessee football legend Dale Carter showed great potential as a freshman for the Vols this year, and his future is promising.
He was a four-star recruit on Rivals, and his strengths as a speedster, a tackler, and a closer are to be commended.
However, the freshman safety had absolutely no business being named to this year’s Freshman All-SEC team.
Warrior saw action in the final six games of the year.
In those six games, he took part in a historically bad defense. Tennessee gave up 49 points to the Alabama Crimson Tide, allowed over 600 yards in back to back games to the Kentucky Wildcats and Missouri Tigers, including over 700 yards to the Tigers, and then surrendered 45 points to a terrible Vanderbilt Commodores offense.