Vanderbilt’s quarterback situation has come a long way since 2014, when Derek Mason played four different quarterbacks. That year, Patton Robinette opened the season as the starter and was quickly pulled in favor of redshirt freshman Johnny McCrary, who’d appear in ten games that season — but true freshman Wade Freebeck and whatever Stephen Rivers was also made appearances along the way.
Robinette and Rivers would both leave the program after that season, and McCrary would leave after 2015 — a season in which he lost the starting job to a true freshman after a particularly poor performance midway through the season.