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QB Joey Aguilar leaving UCLA to sign with Tennessee in swap after drama, NIL holdout with Nico Iamaleava

UCLA and Tennessee have pulled off a rare quarterback trade in college football.

Former UCLA quarterback Joey Aguilar now plans to sign with Tennessee, just days after the Bruins landed former Volunteers quarterback Nico Iamaleava amid his NIL holdout in Knoxville, according to ESPN's Chris Low.

Iamaleava split with Tennessee ahead of the team’s spring game earlier this month over an alleged compensation dispute with the school’s NIL collective. His dad disputed that an increase in money was the center of the issue, but Iamaleava didn’t show up to team activities the day before the spring game and then the team announced soon after that he was no longer with them.