We’re going to take a look at all three guys, similar to what we did in the spring. – Utah offensive coordinator Troy Taylor

SALT LAKE CITY — One, two, three.

Although there is an established pecking order for Utah quarterbacks Troy Williams (first), Tyler Huntley (second) and Cooper Bateman (third), training camp started off with an open competition for the starting job.

Head coach Kyle Whittingham explained that all three will get an opportunity to show what they can do.

“We’re going to take a look at all three guys, similar to what we did in the spring,” said new offensive coordinator Troy Taylor, who added that Williams and Huntley will probably get a little more of the reps — as was the case earlier.

Whittingham believes they’re in the right order as camp got under way.

“It’s a close one, two and three,” Whittingham added. “But it is a one, two and three right now.”

The quarterbacks are taking it all in stride.

“It just makes all of us better at the end of the day,” said Huntley, who saw limited action last season as the backup to Williams. “We just come out every day and prepare ourselves for a game.”

Utah opens the season Aug. 31 at Rice-Eccles Stadium against North Dakota. Whittingham has repeatedly acknowledged a desire to give the primary reps to two and not three quarterbacks as soon as possible.

Go behind the scenes on the first day of @Utah_Football fall camp (and stay for the jukes, hurdles and sweet catches)! #goutes pic.twitter.com/aF7lL3Rdan — Utah Athletics (@utahathletics) July 29, 2017

“We’re just going to come out here in fall camp and just work every day,” Huntley said.

Bateman, a former Cottonwood High School star, is determined to make the most of his homecoming. He redshirted one season before earning three letters at Alabama.

“An opportunity is all I can ask for. I’ve said it countless times, but I knew I wasn’t walking into a great situation,” Bateman noted. “Certainly all I can do is take advantage of the reps I get every day.”

Bateman felt he did so in his debut with the Utes. He said it felt like the offense has been running Taylor’s offense for years.

“I think I’m speaking for everyone when I say that, too,” Bateman continued. “The work we got in the spring and all through the summer really paid off and I felt like we were a long ways from where we started.”

Individually, Bateman plans to do what he can do and not worry about things that are out of his control.

“Whatever reps I get each day, I’m going with a positive mindset,” he said. “Who cares if it’s with the ones, twos or threes — just do my best from there.”

Williams, the incumbent who started all 13 games last season, was one of the last players to leave the field after getting in some extra conditioning runs.

“It’s a healthy competition. We’re all great quarterbacks. It’s a great quarterback room,” said the senior. “Coach Taylor is doing a great job, you know, coaching us up and I just have to continue to stay consistent and make plays.”

Although Utah went 9-4 last season, Williams is “hungry” to get more wins in 2017 and get what has been an elusive Pac-12 title.

The NCAA’s decision to eliminate “double days” led to legislation to move camps up a week earlier than usual. For Utah, that meant kicking things off the day after the previously scheduled Pac-12 Media Days in Hollywood, California.

“Now it’s time to go to work,” Whittingham said as the two-day gathering wrapped up on Thursday.

Players Filipo Mokofisi and Salesi Uhatafe had similar thoughts before catching a chartered flight back to Utah.

“Definitely ready,” Mokofisi said. “Can’t wait to get to it.”

Uhatafe noted the feeling was universal.

“I think we’re all ready for it,” he said.