Tennessee football: 5 takeaways from Vols first week of spring practice

Tennessee football wrapped up its first week of Jeremy Pruitt’s second spring practice. Here are five things we’ve learned about the Volunteers so far.

As Tennessee basketball is set to begin its postseason, Tennessee football has just wrapped up its first week of spring practice. Jeremy Pruitt’s second team is looking to be significant better than the 2018 Vols, who as we keep saying, went 5-7 and lost six games by 25 or more points.

There are numerous advantages and disadvantages we thought would face UT this year, and after just four practices to wrap up this first week, some of those things are pretty clear. It’s unclear how long they’ll last, and it could become even trickier as they’ll take next week off due to spring break.

But at this point, we’re just getting an extremely early look at Tennessee football. It could be indicative of what we see in the future, but all of this could change dramatically by the time the year rolls around as well.

Either way, we’re going to look at the few things we have learned about the Vols through their first four spring practices. After all the newcomers, coaching changes and returning players, we have a bit of evidence now to see what this team could look like in 2019.

It’s not much, but it is something. You will notice that a few of these takeaways are related to things we were bringing up throughout the offseason. It’s also true that some were positive and some were negative.

At the same time, though, there may be a takeaway or two on here that’s not necessarily a surprise but something we didn’t mention as a clear prediction. We’re basing this off observations and things Jeremy Pruitt himself has specifically said.

So using that very limited data, let’s go ahead and give you our first glimpse of what the 2019 Vols may look like. Take what you want from them. These are our five takeaways from Tennessee football’s first week of spring practice in 2019.