Josh Heupel stood in front of the media after Tennessee’s first scrimmage to say the QB competition is still wide open. Joey Aguilar , Jake Merklinger , and George MacIntyre are all still in it, per the HC. “ All three of those guys have shown some really good characteristics, ” he told Volquest before adding, “ There’s some things that each of them and collectively as a group we got to get better at, and that’s always the nature of it at this point in training camp.” But then came a subtle uptick when the App State transfer name camp up.

Tennessee’s offseason already felt like a soap opera after Nico Iamaleava shocked Vol Nation by bolting for the portal to join UCLA. That led to a QB swap with Joey Aguilar leaving the Bruins to come to Knoxville. Th

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