With 72 All-Americans and more than 100 players to put on an NFL uniform, compiling the all-time Tennessee Vols football depth chart can be very complicated.
The number of great players at so many position makes it very hard to cut people out. But if you do a depth chart, you have to make decisions like that.
As we look at the all-time Tennessee football team, there was a number of criteria used to determine the best possible depth chart, assuming everybody on the depth chart was 20 years old.
A little bit of preference is given to players who have played in a more recent era because, let’s be honest, the competition over the past 50 years has been much tougher than it was beforehand, and the talent has improved dramatically.