The failure of the Derek Dooley era is officially over. As we mentioned on Friday, this NFL Draft is the last vestige of the dark past of the Vols over the past few years.
It finished with no Vols being taken in the 2016 NFL Draft. But there is some good news to come out of it.
A 9-4 team that finished ranked in the Top 25 but has no players drafted means that all of the significant talent is coming back. And that’s exactly the case of the Vols.
There was a chance going into last year that Alvin Kamara, Cameron Sutton, Jalen Reeves-Maybin, and maybe even a couple of offensive linemen could have declared early.