Butch Jones: Quarterback will be a strength at Tennessee this season

Tennessee is one of the teams in the SEC with an unsettled quarterback position, but the Volunteers’ second-year head coach, Butch Jones, told the media at SEC Media Days, the quarterback position will not be a question this season.

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Butch Jones was one of four new head coaches at SEC Media Days last year when he took over as the head coach of the Volunteers and took over a team with plenty of questions after the once-dominant program fell on hard times and managed to sell the future of his program, especially on the recruiting trail.

Jones manages to find the positive in every situation, which is a great trait for a head football coach, so despite inexperience and ineffectiveness the two prominent adjectives to describe the two challengers for the quarterback job, Joshua Dobbs and Justin Worley, Jones believes quarterback will be one of the strengths of this year’s Tennessee team.

Butch Jones: "I think quarterback is actually going to be a strength of this team."
— SEC Football News (@SECfootball) July 15, 2014

Worley struggled early in the season, he lost his job to Nathan Peterman before getting it back after Peterman was hurt and led the near-upset win over Georgia and the win against South Carolina before an injury opened the door for the true freshman Dobbs to finish the season as the starter.

Dobbs flashed glimpses of being the starting quarterback for the foreseeable future, demonstrating the dual-threat ability that made him a four-star recruit and a coup late in the recruiting period, but also showed a number of growing pains.

The two figure to battle it out during camp with a decision coming during the opening week when Tennessee opens up against Utah State.

If Jones’ bold proclamation today proves true this season, Tennessee should play above expectations and challenge for a bowl game.