We're talking Vols' Nico Iamaleava as 'Heismanaleava,' but are we overreacting?

Season-opening performances don't get much better than that. It's Nico's time, and Tennessee Vols fans are rejoicing. Iamaleava checked all the boxes in Tennessee's win against Chattanooga. He's the real deal. Call him 'Heismanaleava?' Maybe we're jumping the gun on that one. Just by a smidge.
On today's episode, hosts Blake Toppmeyer, John Adams and Adam Sparks revisit Iamaleava's splendid showing in Week 1 and what it means for the Vols' playoff aspirations. Tennessee didn't answer all the questions against Chattanooga. We'll get a better feel for its defense, the secondary in particular, when the Vols face North Carolina State on Saturday.
As for the Nico hype train? It's rumbling down the tracks. All gas, no brakes.
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[@VolFan931]

Willie doesn’t coach safeties

[@kathrynbrown9842]

Go VOLS 🧡🧡🧡

[@hondot8740]

Way to early! Over reach by a mile

[@joshuawhite7515]

Im worried about NC State. They were sandbagging in tbeir first game. They didn't want to show all they had. NC State is a favorite to win tbe ACC this year. If we (vols) don't coke with our A-game and ready to play hard for 4 qtrs...we will get beat. We will fijd out how good the team and Nico is because NC State aint Chattanooga.

[@PokeT-Rave]

Sandbagging? We were throwing the anchor! Most of our starters weren't even out for most the game. We are contenders for title and championships. We shall see what is going to happen but I'm very confident this will be a fluke. I'm looking at Oklahoma.

[@jeremyg8286]

I’ve seen you make pretty much this exact comment on other channels previewing the game. I feel like your actually an undercover NC State fan. Sandbagging isn’t an excuse for their QB to miss wide open receivers, it also isn’t an excuse for getting beat at the line of scrimmage. Sure, I could see them intentionally keeping the offense pretty vanilla, but that doesn’t account for how bad the players actually played, against what was suppose to be far inferior competition.

[@rabbitscryptos7757]

Vols 52 NC State 20

[@MichaelBishop22]

Vols win by as much as they want to

[@happytrailsgaming]

😂