Hendon Hooker is scheduled to speak at the 17th Annual Benefit of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, June 22.
Hooker plays quarterback for the Lions in the NFL. He attended Virginia Tech and Tennessee to play collegiate football, where in 2022 he won the SEC Offensive Player of the Year award. In the third round of the 2023 NFL Draft, the Lions selected him in the draft.
rated No. 25 Tennessee went into the 2023 college football season with high hopes, especially with Joe Milton III at quarterback. A shot at the College Football Playoff was something that some people thought may happen.
Milton and the Vols, however, were unable to advance past their four-win season and earn a trip to the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl. Milton made the decision to opt out in order to get ready for the next level, even though the majority of experts placed him as the 10th or 12th-best quarterback prospect in the 2018 NFL Draft.
On September 2, 2004, Nicholaus Iamaleava was born in Long Beach, California. The 19-year-old went to Long Beach Poly High School, a football powerhouse, then Warren High School in Downey, California.
Even though he’s older than some of the other college quarterbacks in the room and throughout the nation, his enormous high school success speaks for itself and what he brings to the table.