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Tennessee Football: Resurrecting Passing Game Holds Key to Vols Turnaround

Tennessee's wide receiving corps of scholarship players is comprised of 11 pass-catchers who account for 40 total recruiting stars.

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That's a talented stable of targets by anybody's standards.

Quarterback Joshua Dobbs is a former 4-star prospect himself, one who burst onto the scene as a full-time starter a season ago and was anointed the leader to take the Volunteers offense back to a quality level.

So why can't all that promise breed production?

It's a question UT fans have to be asking themselves even more frequently this week following a 28-27 loss to Florida that saw the Vols attempt just 19 passes, with only 17 of those coming via the right arm of Dobbs.