As the Tennessee Volunteers prepare for the Music City Bowl against Nebraska, the team’s star players are all planning to play.

Though skipping bowl games to prepare for the NFL Draft has been a hot-button issue around college football lately, Tennessee coach Butch Jones told the Times Free Press that Volunteer stars like DE Derek Barnett, RB Alvin Kamara and DB Cam Sutton have been working hard and plan to play:

“Derek Barnett has had one of the best bowl preparations he’s had. I think you look at Cam Sutton. Cam Sutton has not been 100 percent, and yet he’s out here every day grinding through it. The team is very, very important to him. You look at Alvin Kamara. All of these individuals, they’ve had good bowl preparations and I’ve been very proud of them for that.”

Jones was quick to say that he wasn’t calling out LSU RB Leonard Fournette or Stanford RB Christian McCaffrey for their decisions to skip their bowl games. Instead, he said he could only comment on what he knew about his own players:

“I think there’s a lot of extenuating circumstances that we don’t know about,” Vols coach Butch Jones said following Tuesday’s practice when asked about Fournette and McCaffrey.

“Each individual is different and they have their own reasons, so I really don’t think (it’s right) for me to comment on that because I don’t know. I’m sure there’s a lot of things that go into that decisions. All I can tell you is about our players.”

The Music City Bowl will kick off at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, Dec. 30. The game can be seen on ESPN.