Tennessee's regular-season leaders in Pro Football Focus grades, snap counts

A look back at Tennessee football’s Pro Football Focus grades and snap counts during the regular season, for the Vols that played at least 50 snaps over the 12-game schedule:

Player	Overall Grade	Snap Count	Pass	Pass Block	Run	Run Block
RB Jaylen Wright	90.4	325	74.5	73.1	90.5	52.9
RB Dylan Sampson	81.7	247	88.9	49.1	79.9	50.6
QB Joe Milton	77.4	772	70.8	–	78.0	60.1
WR Bru McCoy	69.8	231	70.6	–	62.3	54.1
WR Squirrel White	69.5	630	59.5	–	–	81.8
OL Javontez Spraggins	67.9	699	–	76.8	–	69.2
WR Dont’e Thornton	66.5	214	64.2	64.2	–	73.5
RB Jabari Small	65.8	227	53.2	28.8	69.8	57.4
TE McCallan Castles	65.4	405	68.2	72.5	–	61.3
QB Nico Iamaleava	64.2	52	58.4	–	69.7	60.0
OL Jackson Lampley	62.7	153	–	60.8	–	61.8
OL Cooper Mays	62.3	463	–	66.1	–	61.4
OL Addison Nichols	61.3	116	–	68.1	–	58.7
OL Gerald Mincey	60.6	510	–	59.3	–	59.7
WR Chas Nimrod	60.5	322	59.9	–	–	66.6
WR Kaleb Webb	60.2	282	58.4	–	–	76.2
WR Ramel Keyton	59.9	755	59.3	64.2	–	59.2
OL John Campbell	59.5	538	–	72.8	–	50.7
OL Andrej Karic	59.0	247	–	64.8	–	57.8
TE Jacob Warren	57.8	406	59.8	53.5	–	53.7
OL Dayne Davis	56.9	256	–	61.4	–	57.7
OL Ollie Lane	56.0	707	–	70.3	–	53.9
OL Jeremiah Crawford	49.3	388	–	48.6	–	51.6

Milton completed 229 of 354 passes for 2,813, with 20 touchdowns and five interceptions. He rushed 78 times for 299 yards and seven touchdowns. Iamaleava in four games passed for 163 yards, completing 16 of 26 passes with one touchdown. He ran five times for 44 yards.

Wright ran 137 times for 1,013 yards and four touchdowns, becoming Tennessee’s 19th running back to go over 1,000 yards rushing in a season. He did so in 22 fewer carries than any other Tennessee back and averaged 7.4 yards per carry, the highest for any back to cross the 1,000-yard threshold.

Small ran 95 times for 475 yards and two touchdowns and Sampson carried 86 times for 471 yards and seven rushing touchdowns. Sampson also caught 17 passes for 175 yards and a touchdown.

White led Tennessee in receiving with 64 catches for 764 yards and two touchdowns and Keyton caught 32 passes for 591 yards and six touchdowns. Thornton caught 13 passes fro 224 yards and a touchdown before suffering a season-ending ankle injury at Missouri and McCoy had 17 catches for 217 yards and a touchdown.

The McCoy and Thornton injuries gave bigger opportunities to Nimrod and Webb, the two redshirt freshmen. Nimrod caught 17 passes for 178 yards and a touchdown and Webb caught 14 passes for 148 yards and a score.

Tennessee’s tight end duo combined for 10 touchdowns. Castles had 32 receptions for 591 yards and six touchdowns and Warren caught 15 passes for 182 yards and four touchdowns.

Player	Overall Grade	Snap Count	Run Defense	Tackle	Pass Rush	Coverage
DE James Pearce Jr.	85.8	425	64.2	64.6	92.0	60.6
DB Kamal Haden	85.8	311	49.5	57.0	60.0	90.4
FS Jaylen McCollough	84.0	762	75.5	79.7	73.5	85.5
DE Joshua Josephs	80.6	183	76.4	69.2	78.1	64.5
DE Tyler Baron	79.6	444	71.5	77.2	85.6	71.2
DL Elijah Simmons	77.6	174	86.2	61.3	61.2	60.0
SS Tamarion McDonald	76.3	486	78.8	61.0	64.8	74.8
CB Gabe Jeudy-Lally	73.5	609	81.2	65.1	73.8	71.9
LB Kalib Perry	73.1	178	64.3	61.6	60.9	76.4
SS Wesley Walker	70.6	636	53.4	59.6	78.0	75.0
DL Omarr Norman-Lott	70.4	235	81.0	76.7	68.0	63.3
LB Aaron Beasley	70.0	652	66.9	55.9	67.7	69.4
LB Jeremiah Telander	68.7	165	67.1	67.6	67.5	68.8
CB Warren Burrell	68.0	166	67.3	82.0	–	67.2
DB Jourdan Thomas	66.8	173	80.7	81.1	59.3	60.3
DB Rickey Gibson III	66.2	136	60.8	53.4	–	67.1
DL Omari Thomas	64.9	329	67.6	66.4	60.3	62.8
SS Will Brooks	62.4	185	53.4	56.6	54.0	67.4
DL Tyre West	61.8	174	54.6	29.0	68.5	59.7
DE Roman Harrison	61.1	301	68.4	35.0	64.8	49.4
CB Brandon Turnage	60.7	149	54.2	29.9	59.7	62.8
DL Daevin Hobbs	56.8	151	57.2	80.3	52.3	62.8
DL Kurott Garland	56.8	298	55.6	74.5	62.5	–
DL Dominic Bailey	56.2	256	57.2	80.9	54.8	62.7
CB Doneiko Slaughter	56.0	387	76.6	75.9	70.2	51.5
DL Bryson Eason	52.4	280	46.6	59.0	69.2	60.0
LB Elijah Herring	50.9	543	58.4	73.8	59.1	47.0
DB Andre Turrentine	50.2	250	65.2	67.7	72.3	42.9
LB Arion Carter	44.4	126	67.6	75.5	58.0	34.0

Herring led Tennessee’s defense in tackles, with 76.0, finishing ahead of Beasley (67.0), McCollough (54.0) and Walker (53.0). Pearce led Tennessee in tackles for loss (13.0), sacks (8.5) and quarterback hits (15).

Beasley had 11.5 tackles for loss and Baron had 10.0. Baron was second in sacks with 6.0 and had five quarterback hits. Norman-Lott had 5.5 sacks and Beasley and Josephs had 3.0 each.

McCollough and Hadden led the Tennessee secondary with three interceptions each. The two combined for 12 passes broken up, with eight for Hadden and four for McCollough. Jeudy-Lally and McDonald also had four passes broken up each and Beasley had three.