Drew Hughes - Football Coach - University of Tennessee Athletics

Drew Hughes

Title:
Director of Player Personnel

Drew Hughes joins Jeremy Pruitt’s Tennessee staff as the Director of Player Personnel following four years in a similar role at Florida.

He will manage the recruiting department for the Vols, including on and off-campus recruiting, talent evaluation and high school relations.

Hughes helped the Gators’ recruiting efforts as their Director of Player Personnel from 2014 to 2017 in addition to leading the personnel department at NC State.

Since 2012, Hughes has helped his teams bring in 30 NFL draft picks, including 12 in the 2018 draft, headlined by first-round picks Bradley Chubb and Taven Bryan.

At Florida, Hughes helped the Gators reel in three Top 12 recruiting classes, including the nation’s No. 9 class in 2014, No. 11 in 2017 and No. 12 in 2016.

The native of Montgomery, Ala., worked as the Director of Player Personnel at NC State in 2013 and UCF in 2012.
At NC State he was responsible for the class that landed Chubb, an All-American, while at UCF he helped the Knights land stars Shaquill Griffin and Shaquem Griffin.

He broke into the SEC as a recruiting specialist at Alabama from 2007 to 2011, assisting with player evaluation breakdowns and daily operations for Nick Saban’s summer camps. In this role, Hughes worked closely with Pruitt, who served as the Director of Player Development at Alabama from 2007 to 2009 before being promoted to defensive backs coach in 2010.

Hughes graduated from Alabama in 2011. He is married to the former Rebekah Anne Hough of Lakeland, Fla., and the couple has a newborn son, Rhett.