SURPRISES: Tennessee Football has Two MAJOR Surprises of Spring Practice for Josh Heupel

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The two biggest spring practice surprises for Tennessee football coach Josh Heupel has been true freshman, early enrollee and five-star Faizon Brandon picking up on the offense quickly and the brand-new defense showing out. Is Brandon poised to be Tennessee’s starting quarterback and will the defense be a massive upgrade from the 2025 group? Boogie Bentley of the Talk’ VAWLS Network joins Eric Cain for a Friday afternoon conversation on Locked on Vols.

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0:00.0	Tennessee's quarterback battle.
0:02.5	Is it really dead even right now towards the end of spring?
0:10.7	You are locked on balls.
0:12.9	Your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers.
0:16.0	Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day.
0:20.7	What is up?
0:21.5	Happy Friday afternoon, everybody.
0:22.8	Welcome into Locktown Falls.
0:23.9	I am Mary King, got Buggy Bentley, the Talking Balls Network on with me here today.
0:27.3	We are talking spring practice.
0:29.1	We're talking quarterbacks and right out of the gay buggy.
0:31.8	We are entering week number, gosh, week number three is done.
0:35.7	Week number four, the Orange and White Springs game slash
0:38.4	practices next Saturday. Are you surprised right now that it appears the quarterback battle between
0:44.6	Faison Brandon, George McIntyre, completely dead even. Yeah, I'm stunned, man. I think most people
0:50.1	you roll into spring camp and everybody's kind of going, okay, this is cute. Josh Ible's telling us we got a quarterback competition, but that's not the case. It's George McIntyre's job until it's not. We see him going down to Florida and throwing with his teammates. He's carrying himself as QB1. We see you guys showing up out there at practice. We get to see the routes on air. George is leading the drills. He knows where to be, when to be there. He knows what Josh Eple wants, what Josh Eple expects.
1:14.2	It's George Matt. the routes on air. George is leading the drills. He knows where to be, when to be there.
1:11.1	He knows what Josh Heppel wants, what Josh Heppel expects. It's George McIntyre's job until we get
1:16.9	to scrimmage number one. And we hear that George turned the football over. And there's a lot of
1:21.6	praise for Faison Brandon and how good he looked. And yes, he had some misses, right? Some
1:27.3	deep shot opportunities some
1:29.0	overthrows that stuff you can fix and josh hypole meets with you guys after that first scrimmage
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