Vols coverage by Randy Moore (August 2 to 9, 2011)

Randy Moore is a sportswriter and editor-in-chief for Inside Tennessee.com providing football and basketball coverage of the Tennessee Vols.

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The free articles in this set include:

• Day One impressions: The first day of fall football camp is an exciting time for players, coaches and fans alike. You can't draw any hard and fast conclusions based on one no-pads workout, of course, but you can glean a few preliminary impressions.
  
• * Zach of all trades: One Tennessee wide receiver can play outside or he can play in the slot. He just can't play in the training room, which happens to be where he spent much of his first two years on The Hill.
  
• Right-hand man: The most celebrated right hand in college football is no longer a big deal, and that's good news for the Tennessee Volunteers.
  

The articles requiring a Premium subscription in this set include:

• Freshmen to watch: Probably no year in Tennessee football history featured as much freshman impact as the 2010 season.
  
• Munchin' Miller: All of the negative talk about Tennessee's defensive line isn't causing one Vol to miss any sleep. And it certainly isn't causing him to miss any meals.
  
• All grown up: One Tennessee football player could tell the freshman receivers the importance of learning the playbook ... or he could simply show them.
  
• Silence is golden: Offensive coordinator Jim Chaney was excited to hear Tennessee's pads popping Thursday afternoon but even more excited by something he didn't hear ... background noise.
  
• Painful memory: Tyler Bray threw a lot of great passes during the 2010 season but his final pass wasn't one of them. It was so bad, in fact, that it haunts him to this day.
  
• Healthy attitude: He won a starting job four games into his freshman season of 2009, only to have an assortment of nagging injuries wreck his rookie year. Then he suffered a knee injury in the 2010 opener that led to season-ending surgery just four games into his sophomore year.
  
• QB coming out of his shell: If Tyler Bray's quarterbacking skills mature as dramatically as his verbal skills have, Tennessee's 2012 opponents are in a world of trouble. Sign in or subscribe to InsideTennessee.com's special to see what the signal-caller had to say following scrimmage action at Neyland Stadium.
  
• Super soph. Smith steps up: Maybe all of Tennessee's defenders should have a screw surgically implanted in one of their feet. Sign in or subscribe now to see which defensive end spoke with InsideTennessee.com following the first preseason scrimmage at Neyland Stadium.