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KNOXVILLE — The 2019 Early Signing Period for football took place between Dec. 18-20.
The Vols signed 21 players.
One Tennessee verbal commitment, Darion Williamson, did not sign with the Vols and has since decommitted.
Williamson made the announcement Monday on his Twitter account.
I am officially de-committed from The University of Tennessee…. god has an alternate route🙏🏾
— Darion Williamson4️⃣👐🏾 (@d_dub4_) January 27, 2020
Tennessee remains in the process of completing its 2020 football recruiting class as National Signing Day is approaching on Feb. 5.
Darion Williamson
Haywood High School (Brownsville, TN)
Wide receiver — 6-foot-3, 195-pounds
Committed on July 17, 2019
Jeremy Pruitt on the Early Signing Period
“We’re really excited about the guys that signed with us today. We have 21 signees. This has been a long road. When you think about when we first got here two years ago, we started recruiting a lot of these guys two years out. We’ve built a lot of relationships with them. I think it says a lot about the men on our staff, the people that work in our recruiting department, everybody associated with our program, from administration, to the weight room, nutritionists, athletic training, to the staff over at the Thornton Center in academics, and everybody across campus.
“When you talk about recruiting, it’s a team effort. We have used all the resources here at Tennessee, from – to start with, our Chancellor – to some of the deans in certain departments. Everybody’s been bought in and has done everything they could to sell this program. Our players, our current players – I can’t say enough about what they’ve done, in the interactions when these guys come to campus and building relationships.”