Tennessee could start three freshman on offense-line against UAB

Vols' Derek Dooley has enough to worry about on the offensive line. If offensive linemen Cody Pope and JerQuari Schofield can't start this Saturday against UAB, the Vols will have three freshman, Ja'Wuan James, James Stone and Zach Fulton, starting against the Blazers.
"I mean, what goes through my mind is we've got to do a good job of developing a plan so that they, the freshman, can go out there and function and get hats on hats," Dooley said. "I think if we do that, we'll be OK. But I can't get them experience without playing them, and we can't go look on the free-agent wire right now and pick up some guys on the street."
"They're coming along well, and it just keeps building," said sophomore lineman Dallas Thomas, who originally started over freshman Stone. "It started all the way back in the summer, we'd put ourselves in positions where, let's say somebody went down, we'd just step a freshman up to see how it went. It's working pretty good. We've got to just keep building, and it's all going to work out. It's going to be OK."