Who is Tauren Poole?
It’s a sign of the times that major issues like having a complete unknown as your starting tailback not only can’t even crack the top five on our list of the most important questions for this team, but Derek Dooley doesn’t even get asked about it at media days, so great are our other concerns. In any other year, figuring out exactly who this guy is who’s going to be carrying the load for the running game would be at or near the top of the list. Actually, that wasn’t always true because for more than a decade, you could just assume that the starting RB for Tennessee was going to be successful…and for fifteen years, you were right. From Reggie Cobb to Travis Stephens and at all stops in between, Tennessee had great running backs on the field every Saturday. Since 2002, things have changed. Cedric Houston did eventually team with Gerald Riggs to produce a pair of 1,000 yard efforts in 2004, but it took Houston three years to really get going. Arian Foster was great out of the gate in la
