Tennessee Volunteers quarterback and Heisman Trophy contender Hendon Hooker will miss the remainder of the 2022 season with a torn ACL in his left knee, the team announced Sunday.
Hooker's rise to stardom was one of the best stories of the 2022 college football season. In his second year with the Vols after transferring from Virginia Tech, Hooker put together a Heisman Trophy campaign and helped Tennessee climb as high as No. 2 in the AP poll, its highest ranking since 2001.
Hooker will finish his final college season with 3,135 passing yards, 27 touchdowns, two interceptions and a 69.6% completion percentage in 11 games. The 6-foot-4 signal caller also rushed for 430 yards and five scores. Hooker, who turns 25 in January, is among the top-rated quarterbacks in the 2023 NFL Draft class along with Alabama's Bryce Young, Ohio State's C.J. Stroud, Kentucky's Will Levis and Florida's Anthony Richardson.
Tennessee will turn to redshirt senior Joe Milton III at quarterback. Milton III, who transferred from Michigan in 2021, went 4-for-8 through the air for 108 yards and one touchdown in relief of Hooker against the Gamecocks. The No. 9 Vols, whose College Football Playoff hopes are now likely dashed with two losses, close out their regular season on the road versus Vanderbilt on Saturday.
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