Overview
- Aguilar filed in Knox County Chancery Court seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that would let him play for Tennessee in 2026.
- His complaint challenges the NCAA practice of counting junior-college seasons toward the eligibility clock, arguing it unlawfully costs him a fourth Division I season and significant NIL income.
- Aguilar withdrew from the federal case led by Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia to seek quicker relief in state court, with no hearing date yet set in Knoxville.
- The Pavia suit has a Feb. 10 preliminary-injunction hearing that could influence how JUCO seasons are treated across the sport, while the NCAA has resumed enforcing the JUCO rule for 2026 and is not granting waivers.
- Coming off an SEC-leading 2025 passing campaign (3,565 yards, 24 TDs), Aguilar cites urgency related to spring practice, draft decisions, and a recent surgery, and Tennessee says it has a roster spot available.