If you were looking for a quarterback controversy, this isn’t the story of the season for you. Eli Drinkwitz made it clear at SEC Media Day on Thursday that Connor Bazelak enters the 2021 season as the entrenched starter for the Tigers.
There shouldn’t have been much of a question to begin with. Bazelak was named the co-SEC freshman of the year, an award voted by the league’s coaches. He won five of his first six starts and finished the season completing more than two-thirds of his passes for more than 235 passing yards per game.
That earns you the starting nod, even with 2020 4-star quarterback recruit Tyler Macon now on campus.