{"id":60688,"date":"2025-07-12T22:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60688\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T22:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:33:11","slug":"tennessee-football-players-all-time-to-wear-jersey-no-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60688\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee football players all time to wear jersey No. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Tennessee first fielded a football team in 1891. The Vols claim six national championships<\/a> in 1938, 1940, 1950, 1951, 1967 and 1998.<\/p>\n

Tennessee has won 16 conference titles in program history (13 SEC, 2 SoCon, 1 SIAA).<\/p>\n

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Tennessee’s 2025 season will kick off Aug. 30 against Syracuse. The nonconference matchup<\/a> will take place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the 2025 campaign, Vols Wire looks at Tennessee student-athletes who have worn jersey No. 6 all time. Quarterback Joey Aguilar<\/a> and defensive back Jalen McMurray<\/a> will wear No. 6 for the Vols in 2025.<\/p>\n

More: <\/strong>Tennessee quarterback Joey Aguilar ranked as No. 50 college football player in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Below are former Vols who have worn jersey No. 6 in program history. Defensive back David Parsons was the first player to wear No. 6 at Tennessee in 1973.<\/p>\n

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Vols who have worn jersey No. 6 all time for Tennessee football<\/p>\n

David Parsons, DB, 1973<\/p>\n

David Bibee, DB, 1974-76<\/p>\n

Jimmy Streater, QB, 1977-79<\/p>\n

Steve Alatorre, QB, 1980<\/p>\n

Dirk Gentry, DB, 1981<\/p>\n

Alan Cockrell, QB, 1982-83<\/p>\n

Tony Nelson, DB, 1985-88<\/p>\n

J.J. McCleskey, WR, 1990-92<\/p>\n

Jermaine Copeland, WR, 1996-98<\/p>\n

Constantin Ritzmann, DL, 2000-03<\/p>\n

Ja\u2019Kouri Williams, DB, 2005-07<\/p>\n

Derrick Furlow, DB, 2008-09<\/p>\n

Denarius Moore, WR, 2008-10<\/p>\n

Vincent Dallas, WR\/DB, 2011-13<\/p>\n

Tyler Page, QB, 2013<\/p>\n

Todd Kelly Jr., DB, 2014-15<\/p>\n

Mike Wegzyn, QB, 2014<\/p>\n

Alvin Kamara, RB, 2015-16<\/p>\n

Brandon Hines, QB, 2017<\/p>\n

Shaq Wiggins, DB, 2017<\/p>\n

Alontae Taylor, 2018<\/p>\n

Deangelo Gibbs, WR, 2019<\/p>\n

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J.J. Peterson, LB, 2019<\/p>\n

Jimmy Holiday, WR, 2021<\/p>\n

Byron Young, DE, 2021-22<\/p>\n

Aaron Beasley, LB, 2023<\/p>\n

Dylan Sampson, RB, 2023-24<\/p>\n

Jalen McMurray, DB, 2024-25<\/p>\n

Joey Aguilar, QB, 2025<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Vols Wire: Tennessee football players all time who have worn jersey No. 6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Tennessee first fielded a football team in 1891. The Vols claim six national championships in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[43872,43869,43867,5356,43871,43865,43861,43868,29344,1318,43863,43866,43870,43858,1317,1315,1316,32997,62,1229,43860,67,132,43859,68,43864,43862],"class_list":{"0":"post-60688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-aaron-beasley","9":"tag-alontae-taylor","10":"tag-alvin-kamara","11":"tag-atlanta","12":"tag-byron-young","13":"tag-college-football-player","14":"tag-david-parsons","15":"tag-denarius-moore","16":"tag-dylan-sampson","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-football-team","19":"tag-jalen-mcmurray","20":"tag-jimmy-holiday","21":"tag-joey-aguilar","22":"tag-ncaa","23":"tag-ncaa-football","24":"tag-ncaafootball","25":"tag-program-history","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-tennessee","28":"tag-tennessee-football","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-university-of-tennessee","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-vols","34":"tag-vols-wire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114842645664476629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}