Tennessee, 2008–⁠11

Tauren Poole

Number: No. 28
Height: 5′10″
Hometown: Toccoa, GA
Born: Oct 19, 1989, in Toccoa, Georgia

Wikipedia readers: about 104 a month over the past year

Tauren Poole played at Tennessee (2008–⁠11).

162rushing yards, career highvs. Oregon, 2010 2rushing touchdowns, career highthree times; last vs. Middle Tennessee, 2011

Rushing

Rushing yards, season by season, with his team’s record

1,034

693

5–⁠77–⁠66–⁠75–⁠7

Season	Team	Car	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2008*	Tennessee	22	86	3.9	0	19
2009	Tennessee	10	85	8.5	0	34
2010	Tennessee	204	1,034	5.1	11	59
2011	Tennessee	187	693	3.7	5	28
Career		423	1,898	4.5	16	59

Receiving

Season	Team	Rec	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2008*	Tennessee	1	−1	−1.0	0	0
2009	Tennessee	1	9	9.0	0	9
2010	Tennessee	22	171	7.8	1	41
2011	Tennessee	21	164	7.8	0	32
Career		45	343	7.6	1	41

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Ht
2008	Tennessee	28
2009	Tennessee	28
2010	Tennessee	28
2011	Tennessee	28	5′10″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2011 Tennessee 12 games, 693 rushing yards, 5 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Yds	TD	Long	Rec	Rec yds
Sep 3	vs.Montana	W 42–⁠16	24	98	1	28	–	–
Sep 10	vs.Cincinnati	W 45–⁠23	21	101	0	19	3	30
Sep 17	atFlorida	L 23–⁠33	9	18	0	10	1	6
Oct 1	vs.Buffalo	W 41–⁠10	17	101	0	25	1	32
Oct 8	vs.Georgia	L 12–⁠20	7	7	0	6	1	7
Oct 15	vs.LSU	L 7–⁠38	19	70	1	22	–	–
Oct 22	atAlabama	L 6–⁠37	19	67	0	15	3	10
Oct 29	vs.South Carolina	L 3–⁠14	18	38	0	9	1	2
Nov 5	vs.Middle Tennessee	W 24–⁠0	11	13	2	7	3	28
Nov 12	atArkansas	L 7–⁠49	14	41	0	7	2	16
Nov 19	vs.Vanderbilt	W 27–⁠21	19	107	1	19	3	21
Nov 26	atKentucky	L 7–⁠10	9	32	0	8	3	12

2010 Tennessee 13 games, 1,034 rushing yards, 11 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Yds	TD	Long	Rec	Rec yds
Sep 4	vs.UT Martin	W 50–⁠0	17	110	2	24	–	–
Sep 11	vs.Oregon	L 13–⁠48	23	162	1	39	3	17
Sep 18	vs.Florida	L 17–⁠31	10	23	0	12	3	38
Sep 25	vs.UAB	W 32–⁠29	6	23	0	11	–	–
Oct 2	atLSU	L 14–⁠16	24	109	1	20	1	−2
Oct 9	atGeorgia	L 14–⁠41	15	51	1	13	2	14
Oct 23	vs.Alabama	L 10–⁠41	14	117	1	59	1	8
Oct 30	atSouth Carolina	L 24–⁠38	16	33	0	9	3	21
Nov 6	atMemphis	W 50–⁠14	16	101	1	27	2	50
Nov 13	vs.Ole Miss	W 52–⁠14	12	107	2	36	1	−2
Nov 20	atVanderbilt	W 24–⁠10	23	99	1	28	1	11
Nov 27	vs.Kentucky	W 24–⁠14	17	59	1	13	1	0
Dec 30 ✦	vs.North Carolina	L 27–⁠30	11	40	0	8	4	16

2009 Tennessee 4 games, 85 rushing yards

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Yds	TD	Long	Rec	Rec yds
Sep 5	vs.Western Kentucky	W 63–⁠7	5	62	0	34	–	–
Oct 10	vs.Georgia	W 45–⁠19	2	8	0	5	–	–
Nov 21	vs.Vanderbilt	W 31–⁠16	–	–	–	–	1	9
Dec 31 ✦	vs.Virginia Tech	L 14–⁠37	3	15	0	8	–	–

2008 Tennessee 3 games, 86 rushing yards

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Yds	Long	Rec	Rec yds
Sep 13	vs.UAB	W 35–⁠3	9	43	19	–	–
Oct 18	vs.Mississippi State	W 34–⁠3	2	−1	0	–	–
Nov 8	vs.Wyoming	L 7–⁠13	11	44	8	1	−1

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Played in the 2012 East–West Shrine Game (East team, lost 17–⁠24).

Drill	Combine 2012	Combine or pro day 2012
Height	5′10″
Weight	205 lb
Arm length	29¾″
Hand size	8″
40-yard dash	4.54 s
10-yard split		1.58 s
Vertical jump	34″
Broad jump	9′10″
Bench press	24 reps
3-cone drill	7.36 s
20-yard shuttle	4.19 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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