Tennessee Football continues to be Punter U

Tennessee football has had some great punters come through Rocky Top, and the Vols continue to be Punter U with its most recent addition.

From the likes of the Colquitt brothers to Trevor Daniel, the Tennessee football program has seen some great punters come through Rocky Top.

In Daniel’s senior season at Tennessee, some even considered Tennessee “Punter U” because of its success at the position.

If I had to bet, I’d say that Tennessee is one of the better teams in the country when it comes to punting and special teams as a whole. We’ve seen the Vols find a lot of success on special teams in the past and sometimes it was because they had to, but nevertheless they were successful.

Now, as Jeremy Pruitt gets ready for his third season as the Tennessee football head coach, the Vols will make another addition at the punter position.

UConn punter Brett Graham announced earlier this week that he will be leaving Connecticut for Tennessee and will continue his football career with the Vols. The grad transfer made the announcement on Twitter.

During his time at UConn, Brett Graham played one full season in 2017 and recorded 2,442 yards on 63 punts with a long of 61 yards and averaged 38.8 yards per punt. Of those 63 punts, 20 of them were inside the 20-yard line, and seven went for more than 50 yards.

Although Graham comes to Tennessee as a grad transfer, he doesn’t have a lot of experience, but the one season he did play all 12 games, he didn’t disappoint.

This could definitely add some competition for current Tennessee punter, Joe Doyle, who only played seven games last year due to injury.

In Doyle’s career at Tennessee, he had 65 punts for 2673 yards in 2018, where he played all 12 games, and in 2019, he had 21 punts for 869 yards. Both seasons he averaged just over 41 yards per punt.

This fall, it will be three years since Graham has punted a football in a live game, so we don’t know if he has spent the past couple of years getting really good or remaining average.