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Tennessee Football: 5 Most Important Recruits for the Volunteers' 2016 Season

After two jam-packed recruiting classes the past two seasons, the Tennessee Volunteers likely won't take the full allotment of 25 players in this year's haul.

But that doesn't mean the 2016 class of players is any less important.

Butch Jones' third full class won't be as highly touted as his first two, but UT desperately needs it to have its fair share of instant-impact players. When you've had to rebuild a program essentially from scratch, many areas are still devoid of depth, even this far into a coaching tenure.

This year's injury-riddled Vols team is proof of that.