A seven year spiral in the NFL Draft should now be at an end in Knoxville, as the Vols project to send multiple players to the big board in the very near future.
As you know, Tennessee had no players taken in the NFL Draft for the first time since 1963. The Vols were 10-10 in 1961-62 leading up to that draft; as you know Tennessee is 12-13 the last two years, and only Derek Dooley recruits were eligible to be drafted last week. So far only three players Dooley signed out of high school who stayed with the program have been drafted - Justin Hunter, Ja'Wuan James, and Zach Fulton - though that number can still go up based on the prospects of Vol seniors this fall.