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**2017 Football Recruiting Thread**
Posted on 2/1/16 at 7:46 am
Posted on 2/1/16 at 7:46 am
Commitments (16)
QB- **** Jake Allen (Fort. Lauderdale, FL)
RB- *** Malik Davis (Tampa, FL)
WR- **** Daquon Green (Tampa, FL)
TE- **** Kemore Gamble (Miami, FL)
OT- **** TJ Moore (Charlotte, NC)
OT- **** Kadeem Telfort (Miami, FL)
DT- *** Kyree Campbell (Woodbridge, VA)
DE- **** Zachary Carter (Tampa, FL)
LB- *** Nick Smith (Orlando, FL)
LB- *** James Houston (Plantation, FL)
LB- *** Ventrell Miller (Lakeland, FL)
DB- **** Marco Wilson (Plantation, FL)
DB- **** Shawn Davis (Miami, FL)
DB- **** Brad Stewart (New Orleans, LA)
DB- *** Donovan Stiner (Bellaire, TX)
ATH- **** Kadarius Toney (Prichard, AL)
Top Targets
DE- **** Jarez Parks
CB- **** Shaun Wade
WR- **** James Robinson
CB- **** Marco Wilson
DE- **** Zachary Carter
QB- **** Jake Allen (Fort. Lauderdale, FL)
RB- *** Malik Davis (Tampa, FL)
WR- **** Daquon Green (Tampa, FL)
TE- **** Kemore Gamble (Miami, FL)
OT- **** TJ Moore (Charlotte, NC)
OT- **** Kadeem Telfort (Miami, FL)
DT- *** Kyree Campbell (Woodbridge, VA)
DE- **** Zachary Carter (Tampa, FL)
LB- *** Nick Smith (Orlando, FL)
LB- *** James Houston (Plantation, FL)
LB- *** Ventrell Miller (Lakeland, FL)
DB- **** Marco Wilson (Plantation, FL)
DB- **** Shawn Davis (Miami, FL)
DB- **** Brad Stewart (New Orleans, LA)
DB- *** Donovan Stiner (Bellaire, TX)
ATH- **** Kadarius Toney (Prichard, AL)
Top Targets
DE- **** Jarez Parks
CB- **** Shaun Wade
WR- **** James Robinson
CB- **** Marco Wilson
DE- **** Zachary Carter
This post was edited on 1/30/17 at 7:51 am
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 8:02 am to gatordmb89
UF hosted their first JR day this past Saturday.
Aubrey Solomon named UF his early leader. So did TE Tre McKitty and CB Latavious Brini.
Aubrey Solomon named UF his early leader. So did TE Tre McKitty and CB Latavious Brini.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:48 pm to gatordmb89
Holy shite, we stocking up on some QBs. We're gonna have more QBs than we will OL. 
Posted on 4/20/16 at 10:21 am to gatordmb89
Crickets..................This staff just isn't that good at recruiting.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 7:48 pm to gatordmb89
From Zach Abolverdi... (free article)
The Florida coaching staff was back on the road recruiting Monday.
UF coach Jim McElwain and his assistants are trying to play catch-up after missing all but one day during the first week of the contact period because of their preparation for the SEC Championship Game.
“The big thing is that all of them were able to see it,” McElwain said when asked about the recruiting impact of Saturday. “They were able to see the opportunity that’s going to be there for them to come into a great place, be able to contribute early and get their degree from a top-10 public institution. I’m not sure it gets any better than that.
“So there’s a lot of momentum. We’ve got a lot of guys excited about the Gators. And missing last week in recruiting, I’m sure glad we did because that meant we were playing. And that’s they way it should be.”
McElwain paid a visit Sunday to 5-star quarterback Jarrett Stidham, a junior college transfer. On Monday, McElwain and offensive line coach Mike Summers went to see 5-star offensive tackle Alex Leatherwood and 4-star wide receiver Jacob Copeland (2018) in Pensacola, Fla. Leatherwood, an Alabama commit, plans to officially visit UF on Dec. 9, while Copeland has a top 2 of Clemson and Florida.
Meanwhile, offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier visited 5-star quarterback Trevor Lawrence (Cartersville, Ga.), the nation’s No. 1 overall prospect for 2018. He’s considering Clemson, Florida and Georgia.
Nussmeier also saw 4-star offensive linemen Tony Gray (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Netori Johnson (Ellenwood, Ga.) and Andrew Thomas (Atlanta). Gray will visit UF next month, and Johnson and Thomas are UGA commits.
Defensive line coach Chris Rumph joined Nussmeier on his visit with Johnson, then evaluated a pair of 3-star prospects at his position: defensive tackles Emmanuel McNeil (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Devonte Wyatt (Decatur, Ga.).
Defensive coordinator Geoff Collins and secondary coach Torrian Gray were in Georgia as well visiting 4-star safeties Tray Bishop (Dawson, Ga.) and Xavier McKinney (Roswell, Ga.), both of whom plan to officially visit Florida.
Running backs coach Tim Skipper was in his hometown of New Orleans to visit 4-star defensive back Brad Stewart, while wide receivers coach Kerry Dixon II spent Monday in Detroit seeing 4-star cornerback Ambry Thomas and 3-star offensive guard Jordan Reid, a Michigan State commit.
Two more 4-star offensive linemen in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., American Heritage teammates Kai-Leon Herbert (Michigan commit) and Tedarrell Slaton, were seen by linebackers coach Randy Shannon. The Gators want to get both prospects on campus for an official visit.
Tight ends coach Greg Nord checked out a pair of 3-star linebackers in the Peach State: Solon Page (Marietta, Ga.) and Chandler Wooten (Kennesaw, Ga.). Page is pledged to Tennessee, while Wooten is an Auburn commit.
News & notes
* Alec Jackson, a 3-star defensive tackle from Montgomery, Ala., has trimmed his lists of more than two dozen offers to four finalists. The Gators made the cut along with Auburn, Ole Miss and Southern Cal. He plans to officially visit UF in January.
* The Gators apparently gave Stidham something to think about. McElwain and Nussmeier are hoping to secure an official visit from him before the dead period. Looks like he spent Sunday night sleeping on it.
* Two of the recruits seen Sunday by the staff were 4-star wide receiver Henry Ruggs and 4-star cornerback Elijah Blades, a Florida commit. Here are pictures from their in-home visits with Dixon and Skipper.
The Florida coaching staff was back on the road recruiting Monday.
UF coach Jim McElwain and his assistants are trying to play catch-up after missing all but one day during the first week of the contact period because of their preparation for the SEC Championship Game.
“The big thing is that all of them were able to see it,” McElwain said when asked about the recruiting impact of Saturday. “They were able to see the opportunity that’s going to be there for them to come into a great place, be able to contribute early and get their degree from a top-10 public institution. I’m not sure it gets any better than that.
“So there’s a lot of momentum. We’ve got a lot of guys excited about the Gators. And missing last week in recruiting, I’m sure glad we did because that meant we were playing. And that’s they way it should be.”
McElwain paid a visit Sunday to 5-star quarterback Jarrett Stidham, a junior college transfer. On Monday, McElwain and offensive line coach Mike Summers went to see 5-star offensive tackle Alex Leatherwood and 4-star wide receiver Jacob Copeland (2018) in Pensacola, Fla. Leatherwood, an Alabama commit, plans to officially visit UF on Dec. 9, while Copeland has a top 2 of Clemson and Florida.
Meanwhile, offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier visited 5-star quarterback Trevor Lawrence (Cartersville, Ga.), the nation’s No. 1 overall prospect for 2018. He’s considering Clemson, Florida and Georgia.
Nussmeier also saw 4-star offensive linemen Tony Gray (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Netori Johnson (Ellenwood, Ga.) and Andrew Thomas (Atlanta). Gray will visit UF next month, and Johnson and Thomas are UGA commits.
Defensive line coach Chris Rumph joined Nussmeier on his visit with Johnson, then evaluated a pair of 3-star prospects at his position: defensive tackles Emmanuel McNeil (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Devonte Wyatt (Decatur, Ga.).
Defensive coordinator Geoff Collins and secondary coach Torrian Gray were in Georgia as well visiting 4-star safeties Tray Bishop (Dawson, Ga.) and Xavier McKinney (Roswell, Ga.), both of whom plan to officially visit Florida.
Running backs coach Tim Skipper was in his hometown of New Orleans to visit 4-star defensive back Brad Stewart, while wide receivers coach Kerry Dixon II spent Monday in Detroit seeing 4-star cornerback Ambry Thomas and 3-star offensive guard Jordan Reid, a Michigan State commit.
Two more 4-star offensive linemen in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., American Heritage teammates Kai-Leon Herbert (Michigan commit) and Tedarrell Slaton, were seen by linebackers coach Randy Shannon. The Gators want to get both prospects on campus for an official visit.
Tight ends coach Greg Nord checked out a pair of 3-star linebackers in the Peach State: Solon Page (Marietta, Ga.) and Chandler Wooten (Kennesaw, Ga.). Page is pledged to Tennessee, while Wooten is an Auburn commit.
News & notes
* Alec Jackson, a 3-star defensive tackle from Montgomery, Ala., has trimmed his lists of more than two dozen offers to four finalists. The Gators made the cut along with Auburn, Ole Miss and Southern Cal. He plans to officially visit UF in January.
* The Gators apparently gave Stidham something to think about. McElwain and Nussmeier are hoping to secure an official visit from him before the dead period. Looks like he spent Sunday night sleeping on it.
* Two of the recruits seen Sunday by the staff were 4-star wide receiver Henry Ruggs and 4-star cornerback Elijah Blades, a Florida commit. Here are pictures from their in-home visits with Dixon and Skipper.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 8:13 pm to gatordmb89
Nord went in home with Byrd tonight.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 4:44 pm to gatordmb89
Key OL recruit Kadeem Telfort says recent official visit to Florida sold him on Gators
Ryan Young RYAN YOUNG
SEC Country Staff
MIRAMAR, Fla. — Offensive lineman Kadeem Telfort has been committed to Florida for quite a while, but he admitted he was still only 80-85 percent sure of his college choice before he made his official visit to Gainesville two weekends ago.
When he left, however …
“My sense (was) it’s over. I don’t have to worry about the process anymore,” Telford said Sunday during an interview in his home.
While he’s relieved to have the recruiting process behind him and eager to enroll early at Florida the first week of January, Gators coaches have to be every bit as relieved and eager to get Telfort on the roster.
The 6-foot-7, 310-pound 4-star recruit from Booker T. Washington High School gives the Gators a potential impact addition at one of their greatest areas of need, along the offensive line. He’s a natural tackle, though he said he has played guard before as well.
Florida has shown a willingness — or perhaps more so a need — to start true freshmen along the offensive line the last two years (see Martez Ivey, Fred Johnson and Tyler Jordan in 2015 and Jawaan Taylor this season). And that’s Telfort’s intent.
“When I started watching their games, I realized that the coaches weren’t lying about (how) they really need help and I could come in and make an impact,” he said. “My opportunity, since I’m coming in early, they said I have seven months to fight for a No. 1 spot. So I feel like seven months is enough for me to come out on top.”
Telfort, ranked the 27th best offensive tackle prospect nationally by the 247Sports composite, drew 20 scholarship offers and is one of the most important pieces in the Gators’ recruiting class.
He was committed to hometown Miami early in the process before attending a camp at Florida prior to his junior season and getting on the Gators’ radar. He said their scholarship offer came a couple months later and he’s been committed to UF since July 2015.
But, of course, commitments never stop other schools from pursuing their coveted targets.
Right up until the start of the dead period this month, Telfort said he would receive 3-4 recruiting calls a day. Baylor jumped in late after new head coach Matt Rhule was hired Dec. 6, and Louisville has maintained its push throughout the process.
“Baylor came in last minute because the Temple coaching staff was there, so they felt they couldn’t get me at Temple, now that they have a bigger name, a bigger brand to broadcast, they felt like they could get me there,” Telfort said. “I told them straight up, ‘You guys came in kind of late in the process.'”
Louisville, who was the second school to offer him overall, was his runner-up, he said, but the Gators maintained the edge.
“Based off the visit and the connection with the coaches,” Telfort said. “… The official visit was great. They had a lot of stuff, they put my highlights together and played it on the board. They had me take pictures in the uniform, video shoot and everything.”
That official visit to Florida two weekends ago sold not only Telfort, but his mother Gerta Telfort as well.
“It got emotional for me when I went to UF,” she said. “I saw the field, The Swamp. I walked on The Swamp, and when they showed the video on (the video board) of all his (highlights) I got emotional and went into tears. And he was like, ‘Mom, what are you crying for?’ It’s just the simple fact that you would want your child to succeed, especially at something they’ve wanted ever since they were a child. So when you see that, you get so overwhelmed.”
Telfort will live out his dream at Florida, while the Gators’ coaches might be able to sleep a little easier now with the coveted offensive linemen in the fold and eager to make an immediate impact.
Ryan Young RYAN YOUNG
SEC Country Staff
MIRAMAR, Fla. — Offensive lineman Kadeem Telfort has been committed to Florida for quite a while, but he admitted he was still only 80-85 percent sure of his college choice before he made his official visit to Gainesville two weekends ago.
When he left, however …
“My sense (was) it’s over. I don’t have to worry about the process anymore,” Telford said Sunday during an interview in his home.
While he’s relieved to have the recruiting process behind him and eager to enroll early at Florida the first week of January, Gators coaches have to be every bit as relieved and eager to get Telfort on the roster.
The 6-foot-7, 310-pound 4-star recruit from Booker T. Washington High School gives the Gators a potential impact addition at one of their greatest areas of need, along the offensive line. He’s a natural tackle, though he said he has played guard before as well.
Florida has shown a willingness — or perhaps more so a need — to start true freshmen along the offensive line the last two years (see Martez Ivey, Fred Johnson and Tyler Jordan in 2015 and Jawaan Taylor this season). And that’s Telfort’s intent.
“When I started watching their games, I realized that the coaches weren’t lying about (how) they really need help and I could come in and make an impact,” he said. “My opportunity, since I’m coming in early, they said I have seven months to fight for a No. 1 spot. So I feel like seven months is enough for me to come out on top.”
Telfort, ranked the 27th best offensive tackle prospect nationally by the 247Sports composite, drew 20 scholarship offers and is one of the most important pieces in the Gators’ recruiting class.
He was committed to hometown Miami early in the process before attending a camp at Florida prior to his junior season and getting on the Gators’ radar. He said their scholarship offer came a couple months later and he’s been committed to UF since July 2015.
But, of course, commitments never stop other schools from pursuing their coveted targets.
Right up until the start of the dead period this month, Telfort said he would receive 3-4 recruiting calls a day. Baylor jumped in late after new head coach Matt Rhule was hired Dec. 6, and Louisville has maintained its push throughout the process.
“Baylor came in last minute because the Temple coaching staff was there, so they felt they couldn’t get me at Temple, now that they have a bigger name, a bigger brand to broadcast, they felt like they could get me there,” Telfort said. “I told them straight up, ‘You guys came in kind of late in the process.'”
Louisville, who was the second school to offer him overall, was his runner-up, he said, but the Gators maintained the edge.
“Based off the visit and the connection with the coaches,” Telfort said. “… The official visit was great. They had a lot of stuff, they put my highlights together and played it on the board. They had me take pictures in the uniform, video shoot and everything.”
That official visit to Florida two weekends ago sold not only Telfort, but his mother Gerta Telfort as well.
“It got emotional for me when I went to UF,” she said. “I saw the field, The Swamp. I walked on The Swamp, and when they showed the video on (the video board) of all his (highlights) I got emotional and went into tears. And he was like, ‘Mom, what are you crying for?’ It’s just the simple fact that you would want your child to succeed, especially at something they’ve wanted ever since they were a child. So when you see that, you get so overwhelmed.”
Telfort will live out his dream at Florida, while the Gators’ coaches might be able to sleep a little easier now with the coveted offensive linemen in the fold and eager to make an immediate impact.
Posted on 1/9/17 at 10:45 pm to gatordmb89
5* OL Calvin Ashley scheduled an OV to UF for the 27th.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 8:15 pm to gatordmb89
WR Henry Ruggs is now going to OV UF. Bama is strong leader with him.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 6:39 am to gatordmb89
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s top receiver target, 4-star prospect James Robinson, officially visited UF this weekend.
The Under Armour All-American hung out with several Florida commits, early enrollees and current players, most notably Gators linebacker pledge Ventrell Miller.
Both Miller and Robinson are from Lakeland, Fla.
“The bonds I had with everyone,” Robinson said, “that was the highlight of my trip.”
Robinson, who is recruited primarily by UF secondary coach Torrian Gray, had previously said he needed to forge a relationship with receivers coach Kerry Dixon II.
On Sunday, Robinson told SEC Country that has happened after spending time with Dixon this weekend and receiving two in-home visits from him on Dec. 8 and Jan. 12.
“Yeah, we have built a bond,” Robinson said. “Ever since they started coming hard at me, we’ve gotten closer.”
The 6-foot-3, 200-pound wideout is ranked the nation’s No. 11 receiver and No. 76 overall recruit.
Robinson plans to visit Alabama (Jan. 20) and Ole Miss (Jan. 27) before making his decision on National Signing Day.
Hoping to make a lasting impression, Dixon and the staff stressed to Robinson that he can make an instant impact in Florida’s offense.
“Their message is just that I could come in and play,” Robinson said. “They tell me I have length and athletic ability to go up and get the ball, and that’s what they need.”
The Under Armour All-American hung out with several Florida commits, early enrollees and current players, most notably Gators linebacker pledge Ventrell Miller.
Both Miller and Robinson are from Lakeland, Fla.
“The bonds I had with everyone,” Robinson said, “that was the highlight of my trip.”
Robinson, who is recruited primarily by UF secondary coach Torrian Gray, had previously said he needed to forge a relationship with receivers coach Kerry Dixon II.
On Sunday, Robinson told SEC Country that has happened after spending time with Dixon this weekend and receiving two in-home visits from him on Dec. 8 and Jan. 12.
“Yeah, we have built a bond,” Robinson said. “Ever since they started coming hard at me, we’ve gotten closer.”
The 6-foot-3, 200-pound wideout is ranked the nation’s No. 11 receiver and No. 76 overall recruit.
Robinson plans to visit Alabama (Jan. 20) and Ole Miss (Jan. 27) before making his decision on National Signing Day.
Hoping to make a lasting impression, Dixon and the staff stressed to Robinson that he can make an instant impact in Florida’s offense.
“Their message is just that I could come in and play,” Robinson said. “They tell me I have length and athletic ability to go up and get the ball, and that’s what they need.”
Posted on 1/16/17 at 6:46 am to gatordmb89
I actually think UF will be fine at DT in this class.
Spence just visited.
Slaton, Truesdell, and Conliffe visiting next weekend.
Devonte Wyatt and the Gaddy brothers visiting the 27th.
UF needs 3-4 DTs and has Kyree committed.
Spence just visited.
Slaton, Truesdell, and Conliffe visiting next weekend.
Devonte Wyatt and the Gaddy brothers visiting the 27th.
UF needs 3-4 DTs and has Kyree committed.
This post was edited on 1/16/17 at 6:54 am
Posted on 1/28/17 at 6:48 am to gatordmb89
Florida is hosting 2 OU commits this weekend...
CB Tre Brown
WR Charleston Rambo
CB Tre Brown
WR Charleston Rambo
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