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Tennessee football: Ranking Vols 2018 junior college transfers by potential impact

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 15: A view of the outside of Neyland Stadium before a game between the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers on September 15, 2012 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by John Sommers II/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 15: A view of the outside of Neyland Stadium before a game between the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers on September 15, 2012 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by John Sommers II/Getty Images) /
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Tennessee football added six junior college players to its 2018 team. Here is a ranking of all those Volunteers by who’s most likely to have an impact.

One thing is clear. Jeremy Pruitt is not looking for a rebuilding year his first season as head coach of the Tennessee football program. His reliance on graduate transfers and junior college players alone shows that.

Pruitt brought in four graduate transfers this past offseason and added six junior college players. When it comes to JuCo talent specifically, three of those six guys are four-star recruits in the 2018 class who figure to immediately have an impact in their respective unit rotations.

At the very least, they bring significantly more depth to Tennessee football this year. And that was crucial when it came to Pruitt’s attempt to restock the roster. But which of these players were the biggest pickups for the Vols?

In this post, we’re going to rank the junior college transfers for 2018 by the impact we expect them to have. There are already three returning players on the Vols who came from junior college: Alexis Johnson, Jonathan Kongbo and D.J. Henderson. All of them could play key roles this year as well, particularly Kongbo and Henderson.

This year’s crop of talent could add to that. As always with these sort of things, their potential impact is measured by the state of the roster, the position they play and their talent. But yes, in this particular case, talent is the biggest one.

Of the six junior college players, we already mentioned that three were four-star recruits. One was a three-star recruit, one was unrated, and one was a preferred walk-on. We’ll take a look at the potential all of them have heading into the season.

Is there a chance some of these guys don’t play? Yes. But there’s also a chance all of them play. So which ones will see the field early? It’s time to break it down. This is our ranking of the six 2018 Tennessee football junior college transfers based on their potential impact.

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