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Tennessee head coach Butch Jones doesn't just want to identify talented prospects on the recruiting trail. He also wants players who play with heart.
"We’ve spoken about the competitive nature, and I think that’s really, really big in today’s world," Jones said at Nissan Stadium on Thursday afternoon during the program's recruiting party, per Wes Rucker of 247Sports. "Everyone gets into the whole 2-star, 3-star, 4-star, 5-star thing. The only 5-star that we even concern ourselves with is a 5-star heart. We want 5-star hearts and 5-star competitors."
As for the actual rankings, Tennessee landed only one 5-star recruit—offensive tackle Trey Jones—and put together the 16th-ranked recruiting class in the country, according to Scout.