When Jeremy Pruitt took over in 2018, Tennessee football had a problem. Injuries, attrition and the wrong system put the Vols’ offensive line lightyears behind where they needed to be. The defensive line, meanwhile, was loaded with only seniors.
That meant that Pruitt would have a ton of work to do to rebuild the depth on both sides of the trenches, and Phillip Fulmer hired him specifically to be able to dominate the line of scrimmage. Well, in his first year, while Kyle Phillips, Alexis Johnson and Shy Tuttle thrived on defense, the offensive line was historically bad.