It’s not the most successful Tennessee football NFL Draft class ever. In fact, the draft classes the year before and after were deeper and saw way more successful pro careers. But members of the Vols’ 1999 NFL Draft class are in rare company.
With the 2019 NFL Draft set to be underway, we go back and look at that class to realize how different times are. And it’s not about the numbers. The few Vols with a chance to be selected in this year’s NFL Draft, or to have any sort of a pro career, are entering the pros off two losing seasons, one of which is the worst in school history.