It’s still up in the air which quarterback will take the field with the starters on Sept. 5 in the Swamp when the Gators host an overmatched New Mexico State team in coach Jim McElwain’s UF debut.

Both sophomore Treon Harris and redshirt freshman Will Grier continue to have their good moments in camp and are sharing reps with the No. 1 offense. There has been no separation in the competition for the No. 1 role and still no timetable for making a decision, according to McElwain. Maybe he will go the Urban Meyer route as the former Florida coach said he won’t name his starting quarterback until his Buckeyes take the field for their season opener on Labor Day Night at Virginia Tech.

Whether it’s Harris or Grier, expect tight end Jake McGee to be the quarterback’s security blanket, and don’t be surprised if McGee makes an All-SEC team at the end of the season.

McGee arrived in Gainesville in August 2014 as a graduate transfer from Virginia. With the Cavaliers, he produced 71 catches, 769 receiving yards and seven touchdowns during his final two years. In 2013, he led the Cavs with 43 catches and 395 yards. His best game was Nov. 12, 2013, at Maryland where McGee caught eight passes for 114 yards and a touchdown. He became the first UVa tight end to surpass 100 receiving yards in a game since Tom Santi had 128 against Minnesota in the 2005 Music City Bowl.

Last season, McGee was expected to have a big role in the Florida offense, but he broke his fibula and tibia early during the second quarter of UF’s season opener against Eastern Michigan. McGee wasn’t even involved in the play but an EMU player fell on his leg when that player got pancaked into McGee by a Florida player.

McGee was granted a medical waiver, although for a while it looked as if the NCAA wasn’t going to award a rare sixth year of eligibility. The Gators received word of the NCAA’s decision about two weeks after McElwain took over the program. The 6-foot-6, 243-pound McGee still has an inch-long vertical surgical scar on his left knee and a metal rod and screws in that leg. He didn’t participate this spring but is going 100 percent now.

“It could have been a lot worse,” McGee told ESPN. “I got pretty lucky that no knee or ankle ligaments got messed up at all. The bone just needed time to heal.”

The Gators don’t have a tight end with a career collegiate catch on the roster other than McGee. He is soon to be 24 years old, while the other Gators tight ends are a sophomore (backup DeAndre Goolsby), two redshirt freshmen and a true freshman. It wouldn’t surprise anyone if McGee led all Gators in targets this season — especially on third down with his size. The Gators converted just 36 percent of third downs last season, which was 97th in the nation.

“We like to use tight ends,” McElwain told the Associated Press. “Tight ends really need to be able to function in a lot of different roles with the shifts and motions and things we do with them. He’s a guy who will be able to handle that. He’s a guy who’s done a great job leading his group.”

For a point of comparison, when McElwain was at Colorado State last season, top tight end Stephen Walker caught 30 passes for 279 yard and four scores. Those Rams did have a superstar go-to receiver in Rashard Higgins and this Florida team probably doesn’t have that, although No. 1 Demarcus Robinson is a good player (53 catches for 810 yards and seven TDs in 2014).

But the Gators likely will be rather conservative with their play-calling because of the inexperience at quarterback, and that should mean McGee is featured prominently.