It’s no secret that the past two years have been devastating for Tennessee football in terms of injuries. Butch Jones’s decision to part ways with a strength coach, go a year without one completely, and then completely change his conditioning with Rock Gullickson last year was disastrous.
Add in the said practice methods that Jeremy Pruitt has been trying to change, and it’s also no surprise the Vols would suffer so many injuries. After a historically bad 2016, the Vols surpassed that within the first month of 2017.
This year, many of their injury prone players are gone.