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Tennessee football recruiting under Josh Heupel: 2025 news, rankings, Vols players to watch from SEC insiders

Tennessee football recruiting under Josh Heupel: 2025 news, rankings, Vols players to watch from SEC insiders


Tennessee is hoping to contend for the SEC title and a spot in the College Football Playoff this season following a 9-4 campaign in 2023. The Vols have already begun winter workouts and will begin spring practices in March. Head coach Josh Heupel has made two hires to bolster his staff this offseason, including former Cincinnati running backs coach De’Rail Sims and former Washington co-defensive coordinator William Inge. Sims was hired to be Tennessee’s running backs coach, while Inge is taking over as the linebackers coach.

The new staff will be tasked with hitting the Tennessee football recruiting trail to build upcoming classes after the Vols had the No. 11 class nationally for 2024 in the 247Sports rankings. They currently occupy the same ranking for the 2025 class, with a pair of four-stars and four three-star players in their class. If you want to see the latest Tennessee recruiting news, you should join GoVols247, the 247Sports affiliate that covers the Tennessee Vols.

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Josh Heupel Tennessee recruiting updates

One player from the 2025 class that Heupel’s staff is targeting in is four-star linebacker Dante McClellan. Tennessee is one of the top schools in the mix for McClellan, who plays for McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio. He announced his top eight college choices on his social media accounts, with Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Minnesota and Rutgers joining the Vols.

McClellan was offered by Tennessee last August and he traveled to Knoxville in October for the Vols’ game against Texas…

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