From 2015 to 2017, Tennessee football signed 31 blue-chip recruits. These 31 were pretty fairly distributed across both sides of the ball, and the first couple of classes were supposed to be the ones that brought Tennessee back to the mountaintop. That obviously never happened. Whether it was the chicken or the egg, it was also true that those blue-chips never seemed to properly develop as players. Most never lived up to their recruiting ranking.
The Volunteers now enter 2019 with just a handful of blue chips remaining from those 2015 and 2016 classes. Of those remaining, there’s three we have highlighted who have one final shot at living up to their ranking coming out of high school.