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Three Gators football players no longer with the team

Jeff from Jax

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With the 2022 football season around the corner, the Florida Gators were sitting at 90 scholarships. New head coach Billy Napier and the Gators need to be at 85 before fall camp, which is scheduled to start in August. Wednesday, Gators Online learned that three players were cut by the first-year head coach and are expected to enter the transfer portal.

Safety Mordecai McDaniel, defensive lineman Chris Thomas, and safety turned receiver Fenley Graham. Florida recently updated its roster online from the 2022 spring camp roster to a fall roster and those three players were excluded from the updated roster.

Gators Online and other outlets also initially reported that Marcus Burke had been cut after he was removed from the roster, but other sources have refuted that information. Gators Online learned that upon hearing of the players that were going to be cut, several team leaders spoke with Napier, and Burke was given another chance to remain with the team. Burke was added back to the roster this afternoon.

Opinion
Other players in danger of being cut -
Ethan Pouncey
Jordan Pouncey
Griffin McDowell
Lloyd Summerall III
https://www.on3.com/teams/florida-g...ors-football-players-no-longer-with-the-team/

EDIT
Not close enough to the team to have an opinion on this

These cuts were not due to a lack of talent, or inability to preform on the field. Rather, the cuts came due to the players being unable to buy in to the new regime, and that they didn’t help Napier with his image of what the program should look like.

https://hailfloridahail.com/2022/06/22/napier-cut-3-players-florida-football/
 
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2022 Portal Departures:

QB Emory Jones - AzSt
QB Carlos Del Rio-Wilson - Syracuse
DL Lamar Goods - N.Colo
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K Chris Howard -
RB Demarkcus Bowman -

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Ship cuts from the Roster:

S Mordecai McDaniel
WR/DB Fenley Graham
DL Chris Thomas
 
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