Josh Heupel details if a starting quarterback will be named in spring
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Tennessee kicked off spring football practices Monday under sixth-year head coach Josh Heupel.
After one season with Joey Aguilar as Tennessee’s starting signal-caller, the Vols have a quarterback battle to replace him in 2026.
Tennessee has four quarterbacks on roster during spring practices: early enrollee freshman Brandon Faizon, redshirt freshman George MacIntyre, redshirt freshman Mason Phillips and redshirt junior transfer from Colorado Ryan Staub.
Heupel discussed the Vols’ quarterback competition after practice Monday. He detailed how open the position group is.
“It is open,” Heupel said. “We had that conversation with all of them as we started the winter when they all arrived here. Had that conversation again as we were wrapping up our winter before we got into spring ball. We’ve had a couple of those battles, you guys know that we always communicate with those guys openly, transparently. We communicate with those guys together.
“Don’t expect a guy to be named here during the course of spring ball. I think it’s important that all the guys in that room learn and grow throughout the course of spring, also have a chance to go back in your summer months, digest it, reinstall and come back a much better player, and compete and earn it in front of their teammates as you get into training camp.”
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