After having to start from scratch his second year on the job thanks to terrible recruiting by Derek Dooley, Butch Jones has finally got his offensive line where he wants it to be for this year. And to make sure he doesn’t make Dooley’s mistake, he isn’t resting at the position.
Jones went back to the hometown of his old football team, and he and Mike DeBord kept the Cincinnati pipeline to Knoxville going to continue to build their depth on the offensive line for the future by bringing in offensive tackle Nathan Niehaus.
Niehaus played at Colerain High School in Cincinnati, which should bode well for him since he played in a competitive state that’s in the heart of Big Ten country.