Nico Iamaleava has already arrived in Knoxville. In fact, he’s been around for a couple of months now — longer than that if you add up his countless visits to Neyland Stadium this fall. The five-star quarterback out of California officially entered the program in December, taking reps with the team ahead of the Orange Bowl. Obviously he couldn’t play in that one, but he took the opportunity to get his feet wet.
Now entering the spring, he’s ready to take on more after getting the basics down.
“He came back this January, and he had transferred all of his notes over to his iPad that he had, and he knows a lot of the way we call stuff, the way we take our drops, all of that when he first got on campus,” Tennessee offensive coordinator Joey Halzle said.