Tennessee football’s 72-17 blowout win over ETSU provided the opportunity for Josh Heupel to play all four of the quarterbacks on his roster. With Joey Aguilar playing the entire first half and Jake Merklinger, George MacIntyre and Mason Phillips cleaning up the second half, UT produced multiple program modern-era records in the game.

Afterward, Heupel met with the media and discussed the quartet of signal callers’ performances against the FCS opponent. Here’s a look at what he said and how each quarterback fared.

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QB1 – Joey Aguilar

Attributes:

• Year: Senior
• Year with team: 1st (Spring transfer)
• Height: 6-foot-3
• Weight: 225

Stats vs. ETSU:

• PFF
  • Snaps: 56
  • PFF Grade: 94.2
• Passing
  • Completions-Attempts: 23-for-31
  • Yards: 288
  • TD: 2
  • INT: 0
• Rushing
  • Attempts: 0
  • Yards: 0
  • TD: 0

What Heupel Said:

“He handled the game with low decision-making, for the most part, really well. Some things that he’ll learn from just being able to control the game with some checks that he can be better in. But all in all, really strong performance from him again.”

QB2 – Jake Merklinger

Attributes:

• Year: Rs-Freshman
• Year with team: 2nd
• Height: 6-foot-3
• Weight: 215

Stats vs. ETSU:

• PFF
  • Snaps: 30
  • PFF Grade: 86.5
• Passing
  • Completions-Attempts: 9-for-14
  • Yards: 118
  • TD: 2
  • INT: 0
• Rushing
  • Attempts: 2
  • Yards: 17
  • TD: 0

What Heupel Said:

“I think it’s important your two (backup) quarterback gets an opportunity to function and operate. You don’t know when he’s going to be called upon, right? And he’s one play away, so he’s got to be able to operate and get some flow of what playing is like.”

“George and Jake, when they got in the football game, they had big scrambles, pocket movement that extended drives and created plays out on the perimeter. So all in all, really good performance by them.”

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QB3 – George MacIntyre

Attributes:

• Year: Freshman
• Year with team: 1st (Early enrollee)
• Height: 6-foot-6
• Weight: 195

Stats vs. ETSU:

• PFF
  • Snaps: 11
  • PFF Grade: 72.6
• Passing
  • Completions-Attempts: 6-for-7
  • Yards: 52
  • TD: 0
  • INT: 0
• Rushing
  • Attempts: 0
  • Yards: 0
  • TD: 0

What Heupel Said:

“George goes in, I thought our two-oline handled things really well. George did a really good job. Decisive, made some plays and scrambled outside of the pocket. I thought he handled himself, executed at a really high level.”

QB4 – Mason Phillips

Attributes:

• Year: Freshman
• Year with team: 1st (Spring enrollee)
• Height: 6-foot-1
• Weight: 180

Stats vs. ETSU:

• PFF
  • Snaps: 4
  • PFF Grade: 64.2
• Passing
  • Completions-Attempts: 0-for-0
  • Yards: 0
  • TD: 0
  • INT: 0
• Rushing
  • Attempts: 2
  • Yards: 18
  • TD: 0

What Heupel Said:

“Mason’s a young guy inside of our program. Got to us in the summer and thought he went out and handled himself as a really mature individual.”