At least according to BYU Offensive Coordinator Aaron Roderick, who was observing closely throughout the around 100 plays that took place during the live scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday.

“I need to watch the film…but it’s not going to be equal reps forever,” Roderick said when asked how the quarterback reps were divided on Saturday and which quarterback stood out. “There’s going to be a point pretty soon. I’m not going to say exactly when, but there’s going to come a time pretty soon when we’re going to have to start establishing a pecking order.”

Throughout fall practices the reps have been administered equally between junior Treyson Bourguet, sophomore McCae Hillstead and freshman Bear Bachmeier, with each quarterback standing out on different day during open practice sessions. But come Monday, that process may change after Roderick and other coaches review scrimmage tape and then discuss how to move forward.

“If we keep going the way we’re going forever then nobody will be ready to play in our first game,” Roderick explained. “So that move will happen soon. So I’ll need to watch the tape and discuss it with my staff, and Kalani (Sitake) before I decide who and when I’m going to do that.”

Overall Saturday’s scrimmage brought mixed results for the offense, leaving Roderick necessarily concerned, but not frustrated.

“Today I thought we were a little bit sloppy,” Roderick said in his opening comments. “We’ve been playing well in practice and having a good amount of success…but going into a game-time situation with a real Big 12 (Conference) officiating crew, you learn pretty quickly that some of the little mistakes that you get away with in practice sometimes…those things get exposed in a scrimmage-like setting with a real officiating crew.”

Of course it’s typical for a defense to win out during the first scrimmage of fall practices most years, regardless of personnel, which all coaches pointed out on Saturday, leaving Roderick optimistic regarding his side of the ball’s process.

“We learned some good lessons today,” Roderick said. “I’m not down or freaked out by it. We did a lot of good things today, too, but the biggest takeaway I had today was our younger players especially learning that when you go to the stadium you have to be locked in and you got to execute and perform at a high level when the lights are on…that’s why you have to scrimmage…It’s part of the process of getting there.”

One of the things the offense did well was not turn the ball over. While interceptions have been a plenty throughout fall practices, Saturday’s scrimmage saw no interceptions thrown by BYU’s competing quarterbacks.

“I think they took good care of the ball today,” Roderick said. “I don’t recall anybody putting the ball in jeopardy today. Part of it was we had some tough yardage situations where (we got) penalized for holding or a false start, or something and it sets you back in long-yardage situations and we had to play the situation where you play it smart and give yourself a chance to punt and flip the field or kick a field goal…It was just us playing the (scrimmage) like it was a real game.”

One aspect Roderick is bullish on is his offense’s ability to run the football, although Saturday’s scrimmage didn’t exactly showcase a dominant rushing attack, largely due to too many penalties leading to long-yardage situations.

“Our run game is going to be good, I’m telling you,” Roderick said. “We’re going to be able to run the football. I like our offensive line a lot. Our tight ends are tough and physical, and LJ Martin and Sione Moa are really good players…and then our quarterbacks are really good runners…We’ll sprinkle in enough (quarterback) run game to keep (defenses) honest.”

As far as receiver goes, Roderick stated that his top three guys are still Chase Roberts, JoJo Phillips and Parker Kingston, as the team’s most veteran players at the position. Backing them up, primarily, looks to be sophomore Cody Hagen, Stanford transfer Tiger Bachmeier, Weber State transfer Reggie Frischknecht and freshman Tei Nacua.

At tight end, Roderick expressed optimism about Utah transfer Carsen Ryan, labeling him as the definite starter at the position after two weeks of practices.

Regarding his offensive line, Roderick stated, “The ability of that group is definitely there, and it’s a matter of playing together…They have to be in synch. There’s so much to it. There’s so many calls being made on every play (and) these guys just have a few seconds to communicate a lot of complex information to each other and then work in tandem…to execute…and then they have to be physical when they do do their job…It takes time to get that execution down.”

BYU will continue its fall practice session on Monday and will likely complete at least one more scrimmage in time for the season opener on August 30 versus Portland State.