Tennessee won't have to wait long to see many of the 19 players who signed during the Early Signing Period this month.

Many of them will join the Vols as early enrollees in just a couple of weeks.

At least 10 of the official members of Tennessee's 2019 class are slated to be mid-term enrollees who will move to campus next month for the start of spring-semester classes. The early arrivals, a group that includes five-star offensive lineman Wanya Morris and top-50 athlete Quavaris Crouch, will be able to join the Vols for winter workouts and participate in spring practice. Those players will get a jumpstart on their Tennessee careers and inject much-needed talent and competition into a program in need of both attributes.

While it's an unquestioned benefit for the Vols, head coach Jeremy Pruitt insisted Tennessee wasn't necessarily prioritizing January enrollees in the process of putting this class together and revealed if he were a recruit, he actually wouldn't be looking to head to college six months early.

“We were looking for the best players, the best fit for us," Pruitt said at his press conference on the first day of the Early Signing Period, "and if they happened to be early enrollees, that was great. I can tell you this, if I was in high school, I probably wouldn’t be an early enrollee. I loved being in high school. I wanted to play baseball in the spring.

"There’re some guys that want to play basketball, some that want to run track and some that want to go to the prom. We had several young men that asked us did we want them to be early enrollees, and we told them it was completely up to them. We want them to be happy."

Tennessee's returning players have been at home for holiday break since the fall-semester ended a couple of weeks ago. The spring semester at Tennessee begins Jan. 9. Players new and returning likely will return to Knoxville the preceding weekend.

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In addition to class headliners Morris and Crouch, wide receiver Ramel Keyton, defensive backs Jaylen McCollough and Tyus Fields, running back Eric Gray and tight end Jackson Lowe — all four-star prospects — are among the early enrollees, as are three-star quarterback Brian Maurer, three-star defensive back Warren Burrell and three-star offensive lineman Chris Akporoghene.

Junior college defensive lineman Darel Middleton is not expected to be an early enrollee, East Mississippi Community College coach Buddy Stephens told GoVols247 earlier this month.

"To me, I think if you look at the generation that we’re recruiting," Pruitt said, "sometimes they try to grow up too fast, and they want it right now.

"Does it help to have 15 days of spring football? Probably.”