Tennessee Vols legend lands new assistant coaching job

Originally posted on A to Z Sports | By Zach Ragan | Last updated Dec 14, 2023 6:27 PM ET

A former Tennessee Vols player/assistant coach will be back on the sidelines next fall.

And he won't be far away from Knoxville.

ESPN's Pete Thamel reported on Thursday afternoon that Vols legend Jay Graham is the new special teams/tight ends coach at East Tennessee State under new head coach Tre Lamb.

Source: Longtime SEC assistant Jay Graham is headed to East Tennessee State as the new TE/special teams coach. Also, former New Mexico assistant Joe Scelfo will be the new offensive coordinator, reuniting with new ETSU coach Tre Lamb. They were at Gardner Webb together.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) December 14, 2023

Graham was briefly an assistant at Alabama in 2021 after spending the 2020 season as Jeremy Pruitt's running backs coach at Tennessee. He was also previously on staff at UT in 2012 as the Vols' running backs coach under Derek Dooley.

The former Vol has also spent time as an assistant at Texas A&M, Florida State, and South Carolina.

Graham played at Tennessee from 1993 to 1996. He spent five seasons in the NFL before landing his first coaching job as a graduate assistant at UT in 2005.

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