How a health scare put Lions QB Hendon Hooker on path to NFL Draft from Michael Gallagher, with YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com There was a time when Hendon Hooker did not know if he would play football again. A health scare in September of 2020 lit a competitive spark in the former Virginia Tech and Tennessee signal-caller. Instead of derailing his career, Hooker used the scare as motivation, culminating in a selection by the Detroit Lions with the 68th overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft on Friday. Hendon Hooker is the earliest Detroit Lions QB draft pick since they took Matthew Stafford…
It all came down to Round Three of the 2023 NFL Draft for Dudley High School product Hendon Hooker…The Greensboro/Summerfield, N.C. football player was the #68 overall pick in this year’s draft, and Hendon will be joining former Dudley Panthers Emmanuel Moseley(DB), and Mac McCain(DB), as all three of these young men from the Gate City, are now members of the Detroit Lions…..Hendon Hooker, now with the Lions, and that is one of the teams that we thought might take Hooker, as we looked at this whole draft scenario prior to the picks… Should be a real family like feeling…
With the next pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, the Fill in the Blank Bandits__________________, select Quarterback Hendon Hooker, from Dudley High School in Greensboro, N.C. Hendon, the Tennessee Volunteers’ QB from the 2022 season, is still waiting out there with his family in Summerfield, as we hit Day Two of the NFL’s 2023 Draft…Waiting and watching, and hoping to hear his name called tonight, as Rounds 2-3 will held, out there in Kansas City… The Hooker Watch Party will continue in Summerfield, and let’s keep an eye on who will take Hendon Hooker, as everyone in our local community…
Former Dudley High School football star Hendon Hooker could be first-round pick from www.myfox8.com….CLICK HERE to check out the Hendon Hooker video from FOX 8 WGHP GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Greensboro-native and former Dudley High School star quarterback Hendon Hooker could be a first-round pick with the 2023 NFL Draft kickoff just a day away. Born in Greensboro, Hooker starred at Dudley High School for three seasons from 2014-2017, winning two state titles as well countless individual awards. He spent the first three seasons of his college career at Virginia Tech University before transferring to the University of Tennessee in…
Questions about Hendon Hooker, the former Dudley Panthers State Champion high school quarterback, and the former Heisman Trophy candidate, while at the University of Tennessee…Hendon Hooker, from Greensboro, N.C., and now he is a hot topic for those looking ahead to this months NFL Draft…Questions about Hendon coming off of his knee injury from this past season, while playing for the UT Volunteers, questions about his age, he will be 26 years old next January….We all feel like the young man from James B. Dudley High School, is ready to make some waves in the National Football League, but here…
Four potential landing spots for Tennessee QB Hendon Hooker from Jordan Epp, with YardBarker.com/www.yardbarker.com In Daniel Jeremiah’s latest mock draft on NFL.com, the former scout has Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker(Dudley High School/Greensboro, N.C.) going to the Minnesota Vikings in the first round. The plugged-in Jeremiah slotting him as a potential first-rounder may be a positive sign for Hooker, who comes with age (25) and injury concerns. Hooker is still recovering from a torn left ACL suffered in November. He did not play in the Senior Bowl in February or work out at the NFL Scouting Combine earlier this month. When…
Coaches Tab Hendon Hooker 2022 SEC Offensive Player of the Year BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southeastern Conference office announced Wednesday afternoon that Tennessee redshirt senior quarterback Hendon Hooker(Dudley HS/Greensboro, N.C.) has been selected by the league’s head coaches as the 2022 SEC Offensive Player of the Year. Since the SEC coaches’ player of the year awards split into offensive, defensive and special teams in 2002, Hooker is the first Vol to be recognized as SEC Offensive Player of Year. Peyton Manning was the last UT quarterback to be named SEC Player of the Year, taking home the league’s top individual…
Extent of Hendon Hooker’s knee injury revealed from Larry Brown Sports with Steve DelVecchio, and from www.yardbarker.com Any chance Tennessee had of making the College Football Playoff evaporated with their blowout loss to South Carolina on Saturday, and things went from bad to worse for the Volunteers when their fears about quarterback Hendon Hooker’s knee injury were realized. Hooker hurt his knee in the fourth quarter of Tennessee’s 63-38 loss. The school announced on Sunday that he suffered a torn ACL and will miss the remainder of the season. Thank you @henhook2 ?#VFL pic.twitter.com/7IlJWpFOmj — Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) November 20,…
No. 8 Tennessee (4-0, 1-0 in SEC) at No. 25 LSU (4-1, 2-0 in SEC), Noon, Saturday, ESPN from www.yardbarker.com You have to go back to 2016 to find the last time Tennessee opened 5-0. The Volunteers did not play LSU that season and have lost five in a row against the Tigers , whom they have not faced since 2017. Going back further, Tennessee’s last victory at Baton Rouge came in 2005. Meanwhile, the Vols’ two wins over ranked teams this season have come by a combined 12 points. LSU, meanwhile, is back in the Top 25 while riding…
Hendon Hooker(Dudley HS/Tennessee Volunteers lands on the Davey O’Brien Great 8 List A career high in completions and a top 20 road victory lands @henhook2 on the @daveyobrien Great 8 list#GBO ? pic.twitter.com/gT1smBb36B — Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) September 12, 2022 Plus, there’s more good news here for Hendon Hooker, from Dudley High School, in Greensboro, N.C. CONGRATULATIONS to Hendon Hooker!!! #GBO!! @henhook2 pic.twitter.com/5gBHLC3MMr — Vols on SR (@SRVols) September 13, 2022
Hendon Hooker, from Dudley High School, should be a Heisman Hopeful, as he enters the 2022 college football season, as the top QB, at the University of Tennessee/UT…He is always putting the work in, and he was up at 5am this morning, and going right to work, as is his usual game plan….. Hendon Hooker, the son of Alan and Wendy Hooker, and the brother of Alston Hooker, and lest we forget his sister Nile, she is a big family influence too(see more below)… #Vols QB Hendon Hooker (@henhook2) said he was up at 5 AM this morning, worked out…
from UTSports.com/CLICK HERE www.utsports.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In a game that spanned more than four and a half hours in front of the largest crowd in TransPerfect Music City Bowl history, Tennessee suffered a heartbreaking overtime loss to Purdue Thursday evening at Nissan Stadium, 48-45. Both teams combined for 29 points over the final 4:58 of game action, and the score was knotted 45-45 at the end of regulation. Tennessee (7-6) took the ball first and faced 4th-and-goal from one yard out, but the Vols were unable to score. Freshman running back Jaylen Wright appeared to have extended the ball…
from the Southeastern Conference website: Southeastern Conference Football Offensive Player of the Week OFFENSIVE Hendon Hooker(Dudley High School/Greensboro, N.C., QB, Tennessee Accounted for 4 TDs and averaged 11.42 yards per play. Hendon Hooker is your ??? ????????? ?????? ?? ??? ????. Details » https://t.co/PIEslbJv2a pic.twitter.com/tivyvPV3wc — Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) November 8, 2021 Hooker was spectacular in leading Tennessee to a 45-42 high-scoring win at No. 18 Kentucky as he accounted for four touchdowns and 357 yards of total offense. He averaged an incredible 11.52 yards per play. It was the Vols’ first ranked win on the road vs. a top…
from RockyTopInsider.com and Ric Butler/CLICK HERE….. On Saturday morning, hours before Tennessee would take the field against the eighteenth ranked Kentucky Wildcats in Lexington, ESPN aired a feature on Vols’ quarterback Hendon Hooker. Many Tennessee players, including Hooker, spent some time with their families during Tennessee’s open week last weekend. On the Saturday morning before Halloween, Hooker and his father, former North Carolina A&T quarterback Alan Hooker, we’re out in a Greensboro, NC park going through quarterback drills at 7 in the morning. And in this case, certainly, hard work pays off. (Click Below for the Hooker family video) Hendon…
Former Dudley Panther Hendon Hooker has become the full-time starter for the Tennessee Volunteers…Hooker, a Greensboro, N.C. native, was thrust into the starting spot at Tennessee when Joe Milton, a Michigan transfer went down with injury… Hooker, a Virginia Tech transfer took over the top spot for the team from Rocky Top, and Hooker has not disappointed the Volunteer faithful, and the Tennessee coaches are happy with the Hooker results too…Three touchdowns passing and one TD rushing this past Saturday for Hooker, in the big Tennessee win over Missouri… Hooker has been hot, and let’s all hope Hendon Hooker can…
Hendon Hooker, the former quarterback at Dudley High School and at Virginia Tech, has made his decision and he plans to finish out his college football career, at the University of Tennessee… Hendon Hooker, will be a Tennessee Volunteer, and he has two years of college football eligibility remaining….. (I guess Hendon could play four more years of college basketball, if he wanted to stick around that long.) Dream chasing is an occupation, those with the job understand the process of manifestation. Committed pic.twitter.com/C4fWJPxuuQ — Hendon Hooker (@henhook2) January 7, 2021
We have known and followed this young man since back when he was in the 8th grade, and we get the news today, that he/Hendon Hooker(Dudley High School), will be entering the Transfer Portal, and that Hendon Hooker will be leaving the Virginia Tech Hokies… The Hokies’ starting quarterback is on his way out of Blacksburg, Virginia, and he won’t be coming back… Could he be on his way to N.C. A&T??? He would have to share time there with his younger brother, Alston Hooker, but Hendon could come in and start for the Aggies and they could let Alston…
from our College Football Notebook, with info from varied sources in Virginia, including Roanoke, Hampton Roads, and Lynchburg….. Virginia Tech redshirt junior QB Braxton Burmeister was taking first-team reps ahead of Saturday’s game vs. Virginia. There were questions as to who would get the start at quarterback for Virginia Tech, but it appeared that Burmeister (6’1/205) would be the first choice. The redshirt junior was injured during last weekend’s loss to Clemson, but he was able to practice without any issues. Hendon Hooker(Dudley High School) was taking the second-team reps in warmups, a sign that he would be next in…
Here’s what Alan Hooker, Hendon Hooker’s dad, is saying about his son and that COLD Saturday night in Blacksburg, Virginia: ‘We feel confident he’s fully recovered’: Encouraging update from Hendon Hooker’s dad on QB’s health scare from the Roanoke Times and Mike Niziolek/ CLICK HERE to see all of this article/post…. BLACKSBURG — Alan Hooker flashed back to the state semifinals of his senior year at Eastern Randolph High School when he saw his son Hendon shaking on the sideline Saturday during Virginia Tech’s 45-10 loss to Clemson. The elder Hooker faced a similar issue more than two decades ago…
Had a very good lunch conversation today with Alan Hooker, the former N.C. A&T Aggies’ quarterback, and a member of the N.C. A&T Athletics Hall of Fame… I was on my way out of the Mrs. Winners Chicken and Biscuits, on Summit Avenue here in Greensboro, and Alan was on his way into Mrs. Winners…. Alan was telling me his family is on the way up to Blacksburg, Virginia this Saturday morning and the Hookers will be pulling out of Greensboro around 8am to head up to Virginia, for the Noon kickoff with VA Tech vs. Liberty University… Alan’s son,…