MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Jauan Jennings didn’t need to be convinced.

Top-100 athlete Jauan Jennings of Blackman High School in Murfreesboro, Tenn., committed to Tennessee on Monday morning.

When the Top247 junior athlete from Murfreesboro’s Blackman High School arrived on Tennessee’s campus Friday for his first visit there in almost five months, his mind already was set on the Vols.

Jennings, who’s ranked the state’s No. 1 overall prospect in the 2015 class by 247Sports, finally made his decision known Monday morning, announcing during a brief ceremony at his school that he has committed to Tennessee.

The 6-foot-4, 186-pound Jennings chose the Vols over scholarship offers from more than a dozen other schools — including Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State, Ohio State and Northwestern — giving Tennessee its 10th known commitment for the 2015 class and its sixth from an in-state prospect.

“Really, Tennessee is just a great place to be,” Jennings said. “The coaches there, they really talk to you more from just a player-coach standpoint. Really, they just stress the importance of an academic scholarship and how that carries farther on than you playing football.

“Whenever a coach can really just stress every aspect of a point on how your academics are going to last forever —Â way (longer) than your football ability is going to last — then that’s where you need to be, because you don’t need to go somewhere where coaches really want you for your ability to play football and then get you out of their school.

“Tennessee really believes that, in order to have a great team, you’ve got to have a great relationship between coach and player, and they have that there.”

Jennings, who’s ranked by 247Sports as the nation’s No. 80 overall prospect and No. 7 athlete in the 2015 class, said there was “no runner-up” among his other finalists, and he decided on Tennessee several days before his announcement.

“I knew where I was going to go,” he said. “It felt like home for me. To go to a home-state university and a university that can do very well, it’s putting the keys around me. I just have to go in there and perform.