Vols may have a more ‘top-heavy’ football class this year

Photo courtesy of 247Sports.com / Recent Tennessee commitment Legend Bey, a quarterback at North Forney High in Forney, Texas, will play receiver for the Volunteers.

By David Paschall June 30, 2025 4 min read

Tennessee ended June with the No. 22 class of football commitments according to the 247Sports.com team rankings, which is behind where the Volunteers typically reside at this point.

The Vols also have two 247Sports five-star commitments right now and are in the mix for three more.

“I think they’re doing fine so far,” 247Sports recruiting analyst Ryan Callahan said Monday afternoon. “Each class kind of has a different flavor to it, and this one is feeling like it could end up being a little more of a top-heavy class. Last year, we saw them sign a pretty deep class. They wound up with 15 guys who were at least four-stars on 247Sports, and that was in a class of 25.

David Paschall

David Paschall has covered sports at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 1999 and wrote for the Chattanooga Free Press in the nine years before that. David has mostly covered college athletics, with a focus on the University of Georgia from 2000 to 2019 and the University of Tennessee since 2020. He grew up in Chattanooga and is a graduate of the Baylor School and Auburn University. David has received multiple writing awards and has served as a Heisman Trophy voter since 2003. He has also worked in radio in Chattanooga and has been on the SEC Network's "Classic Rewind" series since 2014. David and his wife, Kelly, have three children — Conner, Emily and Spencer.

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