{"id":346634,"date":"2026-07-20T23:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346634\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:35:39","slug":"at-sec-media-days-in-tampa-heupel-says-faizon-and-macintyre-lead-race-for-vols-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346634\/","title":{"rendered":"At SEC Media Days in Tampa, Heupel says Faizon and MacIntyre lead race for Vols QB"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 It’s SEC Media Days down in Tampa, Florida, and Coach Josh Heupel and the Tennessee Vols took to the press conference stand Monday. <\/p>\n

The big story for the Vols heading into the season is once again a new starting quarterback for the 5th year in a row and 7th time in the last nine years. <\/p>\n

Tennessee will have a new man behind center with Joey Aguilar now in the NFL.<\/p>\n

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Image: Tennessee Athletics<\/p>\n

Tennessee enters the season with four quarterbacks on roster: early enrollee freshman Brandon Faizon, redshirt freshman George MacIntyre, redshirt freshman Mason Phillips and redshirt junior transfer Ryan Staub from Colorado.<\/p>\n

It’s a tight battle between true freshman Fazon Brandon and redshirt freshman George McIntyre.<\/p>\n

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Image: Tennessee Athletics<\/p>\n

“We have two young guys that are competing at a really high level. They’ve continued to grow. There’s a lot on their plate. Look forward to seeing them learn it, earn it, and take a job during the course of training camp. I think that’s important for his teammates to see that garner that trust and respect, and ultimately, when you have a young quarterback, you got to tie everything together. We got to play really good defense, and special teams got to be on point,” Heupel says.<\/p>\n

Will it be Brandon or will it be McIntyre? <\/p>\n

It’s going to be fascinating to see if either one of them can take a lead during fall camp.<\/p>\n

We will officially find out who has won the job when the Vols open up this season in Knoxville on September 5th against Furman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 It’s SEC Media Days down in Tampa, Florida, and Coach Josh Heupel and the Tennessee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-346634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}