Overview

• Aguilar won the job over redshirt freshman Jake Merklinger and freshman George MacIntyre after an open camp competition.
• Josh Heupel said Aguilar was handling himself extremely well and appeared extremely comfortable running the offense after Friday’s scrimmage.
• He transferred to Tennessee in April a day after Nico Iamaleava chose UCLA, a sequence widely described as a quarterback swap between the programs.
• Tennessee opens against Syracuse on Aug. 30 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta in the Aflac Kickoff Game.
• Single-source reports indicate Aguilar could earn about $1.2 million in NIL compensation this season, a figure that remains unconfirmed.