With numerous people around the Tennessee football program and in coaching circles continuing to point toward Butch Jones tabbing Larry Scott as his next offensive coordinator, one of the many candidates to whom Jones has spoken to as a potential quarterbacks coach is preparing for a return trip to Knoxville.

Multiple sources told 247Sports reporters, including Ryan Callahan, that Mike Canales, the current running backs coach and assistant head coach at Utah State, will be brought back to Rocky Top within the next 24-48 hours for a second interview for the Vols’ known opening on its offensive staff.

Less than two weeks ago Mike DeBord bolted the University of Tennessee after an initial plan to retire was altered when DeBord was offered and accepted the offensive coordinator position at Indiana University.

Scott, an interim coach in 2015 at Miami after Al Golden was fired, has no experience as an offensive coordinator but is seen as a fast-rising coaching commodity with full-time head coaching potential. Many football people who’ve spoken to 247Sports indicate this is a logical step for Scott to pursue at Tennessee.

Canales is one of a handful of candidates 247Sports has confirmed of being interviewed by Jones. The Vols’ fifth-year head coach also has spoken to, at minimum, Ken Dorsey, Jeff Durden, Kevin O’Connell and Chris Weinke. Dorsey is with the Carolina Panthers while O’Connell was with the San Francisco 49ers and Weinke was with the Los Angeles Rams.

Weinke is believed to have strong interest in the Vols’ job but also is hearing from other NFL teams. The former Heisman Trophy winner, a one-time professional baseball player as well as NFL quarterback, is a former coach at nationally renowned IMG Academy in Florida who has worked with the likes of Teddy Bridgewater, Cam Newton and Russell Wilson, among others.

Canales, 55, owns the longest background of the known candidates. With more than two decades’ experience as an offensive coordinator and a brief stint as an NFL assistant, Canales spent six of the past seven years as associate head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at North Texas. Canales was the interim head coach in 2015 when North Texas lost 24-0 against Tennessee in Neyland Stadium and mustered just 199 yards’ offense while never denting the red zone against the Vols’ defense.

This past season, Canales worked for a Utah State program that went just 3-9 and hired fired Oregon offensive coordinator David Yost as its offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach a day before the Vols’ season-ending win against Nebraska in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl.

The Aggies finished 2016 ranked 96th nationally in total offense and 108th in scoring at 23.9 points per game.