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Position: RB
Class: 2010 Big Board
Year: Senior
Hometown: New Bern, NC
Date of Birth: 02.01.87
Height: 5116
Weight: 226
Bench Press: 21
Vertical Jump: 41"
40 T: 4.49
Projection: 2nd Round
Ordering: 65
Skinny: Tennessee's Montario Hardesty is a hard-nosed runner. He's a load. You can't arm tackle him.
01.01.10 - The senior running back gained 39 yards to finish the season with 1,345 yards rushing. That put him ahead of Travis Henry for fourth place in single-season rushing at UT.
12.25.09 - Running back Montario Hardesty has been added to the Senior Bowl. Hardesty earned second-team All-SEC honors from the Associated Press this year after rushing for 1,306 yards and 12 touchdowns for the Vols. He joins two other 1,000-yard rushers - Auburn's Ben Tate and Mississippi State's Anthony Dixon -- in the South backfield for the Senior Bowl.
11.21.09 - Tennessee running back Montario Hardesty carried a season-high 32 times and set a career-high rushing total of 171 yards which included a touchdown, posting his fourth 100 yard plus effort of the season.