Junior defensive tackle Danny O'Brien has been reinstated to the Tennessee football team, Vols coach Butch Jones said Monday.

O’Brien, who has started at D-tackle the past two seasons, missed the past two games after being suspended for an unspecified violation of team rules.

A 6-foot-2, 301-pound junior from Power Catholic High School in Flint, Mich., O’Brien has collected 37 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss and three sacks despite playing a position that prioritizes occupying multiple blockers over compiling statistics.

O’Brien, who collected a sack in the Vols’ season-opening win over Bowling Green in Nashville before being suspended, should provide a boost to a Tennessee defensive line that’s already playing without injured senior All-SEC leader Curt Maggitt.

Jones said players’ mistakes usually fall into one of two categories —Â “poor character” or “poor decision” — and he believes O’Brien simply made a poor decision. He hasn’t specified the nature of that decision, though.

The Vols (2-1, 0-0 SEC) play at SEC Eastern Division rival Florida (3-0, 1-0) on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Eastern in a game that’ll be broadcast from The Swamp on CBS.

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