Jauan Jennings will return to Tennessee for his senior season in 2019.

The wide receiver had been considering a jump into the NFL Draft, but he announced via Instagram on Monday evening that he'll return to the Vols.

Here was what Jennings wrote in his post:

"Just want to take the time to announce that I will be returning to the University of Tennessee for my Senior year! This has been a long journey coming, and I am Tremendously anxious to get back to work with my brothers! Forever I bleed Orange."

Jennings had been weighing the possibility of foregoing his senior season at Tennessee to enter the 2019 NFL Draft after requesting an evaluation from the NFL Draft Advisory Board and receiving a grade back earlier this offseason, and as of Monday afternoon he hadn't enrolled for spring-semester classes, according to the University's online directory.

He had until Friday to add courses for the semester, but the more important deadline was at midnight on Monday, the final day for underclassmen to declare for early entry into April's NFL Draft, which will be held in Nashville.

Last week Jennings met with Tennessee coaches to discuss his future, and the Vols made it clear they wanted him to return in 2019.

Jennings returning for his senior season is undoubtedly a boost for Tennessee as he’s one of the top playmakers for the Vols and the kind of tone-setting player who can elevate the level of play of his teammates.

His return means the Vols will have their top three wide receivers back in 2019 after the trio of Jennings, Marquez Callaway and Josh Palmer emerged as legitimate passing-game threats, and quarterback Jarrett Guarantano and new offensive coordinator Jim Chaney certainly will be glad to have No. 15 available for one more season.

The hope for Jennings and the Vols is he can return to the level he displayed during his breakout sophomore season, when he was Tennessee’s second-leading receiver (40 catches for 580 yards and seven touchdowns) and made two iconic plays in the go-ahead touchdown catch-and-run against Florida at a frenzied Neyland Stadium and the leaping Hail Mary touchdown catch to stun Georgia in Athens.

After he had to earn his way back into the good graces of the program by following parameters set for him by Pruitt and athletic director Phillip Fulmer, Jennings, whose profanity-laced Instagram tirade against Tennessee’s former coaching staff briefly got him dismissed from the program in November 2017, endured an injury-impacted 2018 to catch 30 passes for 438 yards and three touchdowns, which came against UTEP, Auburn and South Carolina.

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“He’s done everything that I’ve asked him to do since I’ve been here,” Pruitt said in October. “He’s one of my favorite guys. The guy competes, works hard. He loves the University of Tennessee, has passion for it. … It’s good to see him be able to go out there and compete, because I think he’s a guy that has an impact on the other players on the team.”

After missing spring practice following an offseason procedure on his knee, Jennings dealt with a shoulder injury in preseason and battled other bumps and bruises during the season, playing through an ankle injury in November.

Jennings showed he can be a real weapon for the Vols in the October games against Auburn and Alabama, when he totaled 11 catches for 173 yards and surpassed the century mark against the Crimson Tide.

He was a big-play threat with eight catches of 20-plus yards and three receptions of 40-plus yards, and Jennings also was effective over the middle of the field on slants and crossing patterns and on tunnel screens where he was able to use his physicality to fight for the tough yards and multiple defenders were required to take him down.