Four Tennessee football players are at the NFL Draft Scouting Combine for 2020. Here is how those Volunteers rank by most to prove at the NFL Combine.
For the first time in three years, it looks like Tennessee football could have a decent showing in the NFL Draft. The 2020 scouting combine invited five former Vols, and honestly, there should have been six, as Nigel Warrior was snubbed.
Anyway, the major scouting event began on Sunday and will last through next Monday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. UT has three offensive players and one defensive player there trying to show what they have. Darrell Taylor was invited but won’t be working out due to the offseason surgery he had, which is why we are leaving him off the list.
The offensive former Vols have their on-field workouts Thursday, and the one defensive player has his on-field workout Saturday. They are already undergoing parts of the combine process to determine just how ready they will be for the NFL Draft.
In this post, we’re going to rank the former Vols by who have the best opportunities to prove themselves at this year’s combine. While this post takes into account the production of the players in college and their physical attributes, its key focus is on who could improve their stock for the draft going forward.
Some players were elite in college but have physical questions about the pros. A great combine could offset that and shoot up their stock. Others are drawing interest specifically because of their physical abilities, and that means they can’t afford to have a bad combine. Taking the latter factor into account, the person at the bottom of this list is the one with the most to lose.
All of these guys have potential in the pros, and Jeremy Pruitt deserves a lot of credit for helping to develop them. He inherited most of them from Butch Jones, but he switched the position of one of the players and did recruit one from the junior college ranks. Others just took a major step forward under his leadership.
We should emphasize, again, though, that Warrior should have been invited to this. It’s a travesty that he wasn’t given his senior year production. Which other players are we talking about? How do they stack up against each other in terms of NFL Draft combine opportunities? Here is our ranking of all five of them based on who has the most to gain this week.