{"id":829296,"date":"2026-03-23T15:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/829296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:13:17","slug":"watch-tennessee-football-goes-full-pads-at-spring-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/829296\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Tennessee Football Goes Full Pads at Spring Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_4986.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-194299\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"407\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_4986-300x194.webp.webp\"\/><\/a>Tennessee football OL Kamari Blair (Photo via Ryan Sylvia | Rocky Top Insider)<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee football was back in action for its fifth spring practice of the 2026 slate. The Vols were in full pads for the first time and got to work in the trenches.<\/p>\n<p>This also marks a third of spring ball in the books for Tennessee as it continues the road to the 2026 Orange &amp; White Game on April 11 in Neyland Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee started indoors for a brief session of the media viewing. The attached highlight video features defensive coordinator Jim Knowles working with the defensive backs before the group heads outside.<\/p>\n<p>Then, catch UT\u2019s offensive line get to work. Vols tackles David Sanders Jr., Gabriel Osenda and Kamari Blair worked on footwork with a pad.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterbacks were off limits to film during the session as they worked inside the red zone with routes on air.\u00a0 For notes and observations from Tennessee\u2019s practice on Tuesday, including quarterbacks, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/2026\/03\/23\/tennessee-football-practice-notes-and-observations-spring-practice-no-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rocky Top Insider\u2019s takeaways here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More From RTI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/2026\/03\/21\/everything-tennessee-football-ol-coach-glen-elarbee-said-in-spring-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Everything Tennessee Football OL Coach Glen Elarbee Said in Spring Practice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at some of RTI\u2019s highlights from Tennessee\u2019s work on the field for the fifth time this spring:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee football OL Kamari Blair (Photo via Ryan Sylvia | Rocky Top Insider) Tennessee football was back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,1209,6364],"class_list":{"0":"post-829296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-tennessee-football","10":"tag-tennessee-vols"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116279142475550773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}