There are FaceTime conversations, snapchats, photos, autographs, and just family visits. It's all in a day's work in the life of Josh Dobbs, senior quarterback and engineering major at Tennessee.

The stories of Dobbs' community service work have become legendary. After all, it was Dobbs who just hours after the Orange and White game this past April hunted down a child who was upset he didn't get an autograph from the Vols’ quarterback.

It was Dobbs who once hid in the bedroom of a young fan to surprise him. It's Dobbs who has gone to birthday parties of AJ Crusksey, a young child in Knoxville who Dobbs befriended two years ago.

“I just think when you come to Tennessee you have a really unique platform,” Dobbs said. “You are able to meet people of all different types of backgrounds from different places at school. Obviously a lot of kids in the community look up to you. It's always cool to be able to go and help someone out or maybe make their day better. They might be going through a rough patch.

“I feel like it's my responsibility and it's something I want to do. I want to seek out people that kind of look up to me. I have been blessed with the opportunity to play football here and a lot of other great things. It's always great to give back to the community. It's something I always did in high school. It's something I have continued to do in college.”

In other words it's who Dobbs is. Not because he's an athlete. Not because he's counting hours towards fulfilling some responsibility but it's because that's who he has always been.

“It came from my parents,” Dobbs said of his community service work. “It was pretty cool, my mom and I were in something called a young man's service league. It was boys and their moms doing various service projects. That's something I was in my freshman year through my senior year in high school. I did the beta club in middle (school) and different things. It came from my parents. You are always looking for ways to give back to your community. It's also been a great way to meet people in the community that I wouldn't have come in contact with had I not reached out.

“That's kind of always been my goal – to find a way to make a difference. When you walk into a room and see a kid smile and when you leave the parents say thank you, 'This is the first time we have seen him smile for weeks.' It hits home that you are a role model and the kids look up to you. Even though you might not see yourself as that. I just see myself as Josh Dobbs, the same kid I saw myself as in high school. Just a football player pushing himself everyday to get better. But when you get that feedback from a parent, a grandma or anyone, then it hits home that you can really make a difference. Just keep doing what you are doing and find different ways to make a difference with kids. They are going through things that I could never really imagine. Everyone has their difficulties. Anyway that I can reach out, call them, say hello, just talk to them and get a smile on their face, that definitely makes me feel good and makes them feel good as well.”

Given Dobbs' willingness to do anything or go anywhere to help someone out in the community, one can only imagine all the situations that he’s been asked to participate in. Despite all he has done, Dobbs admits there has not been a situation that has ever made him uncomfortable.

“Not really,” Dobbs admitted. “You say you can't see everyone and that's definitely the case but you can try and see as many as you can. Anytime you can, you do it. You can make a bigger difference than just going home after the spring game and sitting at home. You make a bigger difference by going and seeking out a kid than just hanging at home at night. Not all of them take hours to do. Some of them are just 20 minutes to say hello and that could change someone's day or their whole perspective of themselves. Anytime I feel like I can get it done, then I try and jump at the opportunity.”

Opportunities that one would think would be hard for him to find considering everything on his plate. With a course load overwhelming for most normal students, counseling trips to the Manning Passing Academy, the Elite 11 and an internship with Pratt and Whitney the last two summers, finding time for those opportunities seems impossible. Yet, Dobbs leads the team in community service hours, not that he's counting.

“It's really a true testament to him,” head coach Butch Jones said of his quarterback. “The ability to focus. The ability to concentrate and go from one task to another. He's very task oriented. I think it helps that he's very intrinsically driven and he's very, very competitive. I think he takes that competitive approach from the game of football and applies it to his entire life. When you look at a young man that's in the major and the curriculum that he's doing, being the quarterback at the University of Tennessee, he leads us in community service hours (too). You look at all those things that are on his plate every day. It's really truly remarkable. If you were able to really look at the model student athlete and also maybe the most difficult task of the student athlete, they should come study Josh Dobbs. He does those tasks extremely well.”

So what's the key for the management of a Dobbs day? A list and little wasted time.

“I'm not really good with rigid times. I just make a list of things I have to get done and I just get them done. My mom would love for me to block off hours and schedule everything out. She helps me out a lot. She loves to schedule and she loves the planning like at 11:00 I'm doing this and noon I'm doing this. For me, I'm just like, 'Here's my tasks. I will get them done at some point.'

“Like with film, I have class Monday at 7:40-8:50, then go get breakfast. I don't have my next class till 1 p.m. or workouts at 2 so I'm going to go get some film in. So then, like extra work, I will be like, 'The day is over with so I'm going to go back to the complex and get some extra work in.'

"It will be stuff like that. I'm blessed with great teammates who love getting extra work in and love coming in during the night hours and getting extra work done.”

That extra work is typically specific and tailored to certain players depending on what needs to be done.

“I usually text strategic guys,” Dobbs said. “If I'm going to watch film on specific things and I know the freshmen haven't seen it, I might text them and say, 'I'm going to watch film at this time.' Or if I'm going to throw and I haven't thrown enough with a couple of guys I will text those guys and say 'Hey lets get some extra reps in.' And for the most part they all show up.”

“Anyone can come, but if there's a guy who I haven't gotten enough throwing with then I'm definitely texting that guy to come because I need to throw with him. It's all strategic for sure.”

It's a strategy that comes from, where else, his mom and dad.

“My parents for sure. They have always told me whenever you are making plans it's strategic. You have to have a strategy to it. You aren't going to throw just to throw. You are not going to do something just to do something. Every thing you do has to be strategic. That's where I adopted that from.”

The Georgia native, who was named Tuesday to the Maxwell Award watch list, admits managing his time as a senior is much easier than as a freshman and Dobbs isn't looking for anyone to feel sorry for him. Despite a schedule that makes you tired reading it, Dobbs said he's having the time of his life and has plenty of time to relax.

“Obviously, you have those times where you just want to go chill and maybe you don't want to do an obligation or a speaking arrangement. But when you think about it, you have plenty of time to chill after college or when you are finished so why not just make the most of it when you can. Whenever I'm feeling tired or fatigued that's kind of my mindset. I only have a limited amount of time here with the platform that I have in Knoxville. I have to make the most of it while I'm here.

“I have a lot of fun. I have a lot of chill time. There's a lot more dead time than you think. I have a lot of fun.”

Fun that includes touching as many lives as he can everyday.