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Tennessee Football has the No. 1 senior prospect

By Colton Pickard

KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 20: LaBryan Ray #89 of the Alabama Crimson Tide battles with Offensive lineman Trey Smith #73 of the Tennessee Volunteers during the first half of the game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium on October 20, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Alabama won 58-21. (Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 20: LaBryan Ray #89 of the Alabama Crimson Tide battles with Offensive lineman Trey Smith #73 of the Tennessee Volunteers during the first half of the game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium on October 20, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Alabama won 58-21. (Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images) /
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According to a scouting service used by the NFL, Tennessee Football has the No. 1 senior prospect in the country heading into the 2020 season.

Trey Smith is a fan favorite in Knoxville among Tennessee Football fans and it looks like that’s the case for NFL scouting service National Football Scouting.

NFS is also a big fan of Smith as it has ranked him as the No. 1 prospect in college football among rising seniors. That will likely come as no surprise for many Tennessee football fans, but for other fans across the country, it might come as a shock because Tennessee hasn’t been in the spotlight, or even necessarily good, since Smith arrived in Knoxville.

Before you know it, the 2021 NFL Draft will be a few weeks away and the college football season will have come and gone, or not.

According to Albert Breer, the scouting service ranked Smith No. 1 in the country based on its most recent draft grades.

"“Smith is a great story—he came back from a significant issue with blood clots in 2018—and a really, really good prospect,” Smith said. “If he’s what he was in 2019, and he was first-team All-SEC last year, he’s a good bet to go in the first round.”"

This doesn’t mean that Smith will be the No. 1 pick in the 2021 draft or even a top-ten pick. Based on their grading scale, they still have Smith as a late first-round pick or a second-round pick.

The grading scale is as follows: 9.0-plus=First overall pick/Hall of Fame, 8.0-8.9=top 10, 7.0-7.9=first round, 6.5-6.9=late first/second, and 6.0-6.4=second/third round.

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Smith was graded at 6.91 which put him in the “late first/second” category and he’s on the verge of locking in a first-round grade.

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