Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel didn’t give a lot of information to the media last week regarding Nico Iamaleava’s injury status leading into the Georgia game in Athens on Saturday.
Heupel did show some optimism early in the week but really didn’t say too much on Monday or Wednesday as he pointed to the ensuing injury reports that were set to come out on Wednesday night, Thursday night, and Friday night.
Some wondered if Iamaleava’s status as questionable on the Wednesday and Thursday injury reports was just Tennessee being coy, trying not to tip their hand before the high-stakes SEC matchup against the Bulldogs. But after Heupel’s postgame comments on Saturday, it doesn’t appear as though Heupel or Tennessee were playing coy as they instead were waiting for the Vols’ medical team to make a decision on Iamaleava’s status…