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Vols QB commit George MacIntyre gets five-star rating from 247Sports
The star of Tennessee’s 2025 recruiting class is now rated a five-star prospect by 247Sports. Vols quarterback commitment George MacIntyre of Brentwood (Tenn.) Academy, who has been a five-star prospect in the industry-generated 247Sports Composite, received a five-star rating from 247Sports on Wednesday as part of the latest update to the Top247 for the 2025 class.
The 6-foot-5.5, 190-pound MacIntyre didn’t need to move up in the rankings to become a five-star prospect. The expanding pool of five-stars in 247Sports’ rankings allowed him to add a fifth star by simply remaining one of the top 10 overall prospects in the 2025 class.
He’s ranked by 247Sports as the No. 10 overall player and No. 3 quarterback in the 2025 class and the No. 1 junior from the state of Tennessee. In the 247Sports Composite, he’s ranked the No. 13 overall player and No. 3 quarterback in the 2025 class and the No. 1 junior from the Volunteer State.
MacIntyre announced his commitment to Tennessee on Jan. 22, choosing the Vols over Alabama at the time. He has received scholarship offers from more than 35 schools.
The state of Tennessee traditionally hasn’t been known for producing elite quarterback prospects. But that has started to change in recent years, and MacIntyre’s current rankings would make him the highest-ranked quarterback the Volunteer State has produced in the modern era.
MacIntyre threw for 3,229 yards, 25 touchdowns and 12 interceptions during his junior season, completing 67.3 percent of his passes. He also ran for three scores.
He’s the grandson of the late George MacIntyre, a former Vanderbilt and UT Martin coach, and the nephew of FIU coach Mike MacIntyre. The younger MacIntyre’s father, Matt, also played football at Western Kentucky.
On the day he revealed his decision, he told GoVols247 that he had known his decision for weeks before revealing it during a ceremony at his school. He visited Tennessee at least nine times between June 2022 and the weekend of Jan. 20, when he returned to Knoxville just two days before his announcement.
“I think about two months ago I knew it was home,” MacIntyre said in January. “I just announced (it that day). But we’ve been trying to for a while. There’s a lot of different reasons why we couldn’t. But it feels good to get it off my shoulders.”
MacIntyre said at the time that there were “a lot of reasons” he chose the Vols, “but I think the main reason was Coach Heupel.” A former Heisman Trophy runner-up who led Oklahoma to the 2000 national championship, Heupel has built a strong relationship with MacIntyre throughout his recruitment, and MacIntyre said he’s excited about playing in Heupel’s fast-paced, high-scoring offense.
He’s preparing to play in his third offense in as many years at Brentwood Academy. Playing for Heupel at Tennessee will allow MacIntyre to remain in the same system, he said, without fearing that a change at offensive coordinator could force him to learn a new offense.
“That is one of the main reasons why I did commit to Tennessee, is because I know what I’ll be running,” MacIntyre said after revealing his choice in January. “I know it’s the head coach’s offense. Other places, they’ll have a new coordinator every two or three years coming in with a new offense. I’ve been through that.
“Coach Heupel was a quarterback. It’s his offense. That’s not true for a lot of places. … We’ve had film sessions, and he’ll show one of my clips and then one of his clips, and how they kind of will come together in college. I’m very excited to run his offense and hopefully light up the SEC.”
As the star of the Vols’ class, MacIntyre recently told GoVols247 that he plans to make plenty of trips to Tennessee’s campus in the coming months. He said he will “most likely be there” on March 23 for the Vols’ first weekend practice of the spring, where a number of Tennessee targets are expected to be in attendance.
“It’s hard to tell (which recruits will be there) right now, because a lot of guys are still setting up their spring,” MacIntyre said on Feb. 25. “But any time some big guys will be there, I’ll probably try to make my way over there.”
