{"id":295633,"date":"2025-04-12T20:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/tennessee-moving-on-from-starting-qb\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T20:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:36:57","slug":"tennessee-moving-on-from-starting-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/tennessee-moving-on-from-starting-qb\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee moving on from starting QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/players\/nico_iamaleava\/912953\" class=\"yard_link\">Nico Iamaleava<\/a> was supposed to be the next great quarterback for the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/colleges\/tennessee_volunteers\/515\" class=\"yard_link\">Tennessee Volunteers<\/a>, and for a time, it appeared that he was on track. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a former 5-star recruit ranked as the <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/season\/2023-football\/compositerecruitrankings\/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool&amp;Position=QB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 2 quarterback<\/a> in the 2023 class, behind only Texas Longhorns QB Arch Manning. In his first full season as a starter, he threw for 2,616 yards and 19 touchdowns (five interceptions) while rushing for 358 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>He helped the Volunteers qualify for the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff, and now, shockingly, Tennessee is moving on from Iamaleava as he enters the transfer portal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/articles\/tennessee_moving_on_from_starting_qb_nico_iamaleava\/s1_13132_42041246\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Iamaleava was supposed to be the next great quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers, and for a time, it appeared that he was on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}