Tennessee quarterback Joey Aguilar surpassed 3,000 passing yards on the season during the Vols’ game against Florida on Saturday night in Gainesville. The senior quarterback entered the game with 2,941 passing yards and passed the 3,000 mark with a 19-yard strike to Chris Brazzell in the first quarter of the game on Saturday.
Aguilar is the fifth quarterback in Tennessee history to record 3,000+ passing yards in a single season. It is the sixth time in UT program history that a Volunteer quarterback has topped the 3,000-yard mark:
- Peyton Manning – 3,819 yards (1997)
- Tyler Bray – 3,612 yards (2012)
- Erik Ainge – 3,522 yards (2007)
- Peyton Manning – 3,287 yards (1996)
- Hendon Hooker – 3,135 yards (2022)
- Joey Aguilar – 3,000+ (2025)
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Aguilar, a former transfer from App State by way of UCLA, began the season entrenched in a quarterback battle for the starting position during fall camp in Knoxville. The 6-foot-3 quarterback won the job over redshirt freshman Jake Merklinger and true freshman George MacIntyre.
Aguilar was known as a gunslinger during his time with the Mountaineers and carried that into his lone year in Knoxville. He’s thrown for more than 200 yards in all nine completed games so far this season, extending a career streak to 34 straight games hitting that mark, which dates back to the 2023 season at App State.
The California native has topped the 300-yard mark in four games this season, which have all come in SEC play. He threw for 371 yards in a loss to Georgia, 335 yards in an overtime win against Mississippi State, 396 yards in a win at Kentucky, and 393 yards in a home loss to Oklahoma.
Aguilar could wind up passing Hendon Hooker on Tennessee’s all-time single-season passing yard list by the end of the Florida game on Saturday night. He entered the game needing 195 yards to break Hooker’s mark from the 2022 season. Aguilar had 64 total passing yards when he passed the 3,000-yard mark in the first quarter.
