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Tennessee football recruiting: Vols 2019 class by the numbers

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 08: Tennessee mascot Davy Crockett carries the flag across the end zone during a game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the East Tennessee State University Buccaneers at Neyland Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tennesee won the game 59-3. (Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 08: Tennessee mascot Davy Crockett carries the flag across the end zone during a game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the East Tennessee State University Buccaneers at Neyland Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tennesee won the game 59-3. (Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images) /
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Tennessee football’s 2019 recruiting class can be told by many numbers. Here are key stats that break down the Volunteers.

The basic numbers for the 2019 Tennessee football recruiting class are now all out there. They have a Top 15 ranked class and one that’s in the top half of the SEC thanks to 23 commitments and 22 players who have already signed.

However, the Vols’ numbers go much deeper than that. Jeremy Pruitt’s first full recruiting class, as we mentioned last week, was more about shoring up needs and building depth than finding a top-ranked class to dominate.

That marked a huge departure from Butch Jones, who won over the Tennessee football fan base early simply by stocking up on guys with high star ratings, particularly in the state, and it didn’t matter if they couldn’t play. Pruitt wasn’t going to do that.

Instead, he dedicated his time to finding the right fits for his system and guys who can immediately help out with the weaknesses facing the program. As a result, the class wasn’t perfect, but National Signing Day made it much better than anybody thought it would be.

In this post, we’re going to take a look at the key numbers from the Vols’ 2019 recruiting class. Their major Signing Day splash changed a lot of things, but the numbers overall represent a body of work over the course of more than a year.

Again, it is true that we can’t guarantee how a class will work out until three years from now. Derek Dooley always rightly said that the victory is not on Signing Day. It’s how well the class has developed three years later.

Still, specific data points can give you an idea of what could happen in the future. Recruiting data is not completely useless. So let’s break those down here. Here is Tennessee football’s 2019 recruiting class by the numbers.

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