Florida Gators 2025 Recruiting Class

Class ranking:
#17 - 1/20/2024
#62 - 7/22/2024
#23 - 8/25/2024
#51 - 9/25/2024
#38 - 11/20/2024

The following recruits have made at least one official visit.

Escambia94 said:

Class ranking:
#17 - 1/20/2024

• Jalen Wiggins James Rickards (Tallahassee, FL)
  6-4.5 / 245 Commit 1/15/2024 DL
  
  
• Waltez Clark Plant (Tampa, FL)
  6-1 / 194 Commit 9/16/2023 RB
  
  
• Josiah Abdullah Woodward Academy (Atlanta, GA)
  5-10 / 175 Commit 1/14/2024 WR

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ADD "VB3"!!!
We'd been (in numbingly slow-but-steady fashion) adding to this class, while admittedly for the most part still focusing on 2024...But with this big "must have" (for a LOT of reasons) we have begun to fully transition to 2025 on the recruiting trail. All the MORE reason we must somehow at least do well enough in the season at hand to get Billy off that "hot seat" so that the building resurgence can go on.
(I put that as "low key quietly" as I could; of course, what I'd LOVE to see is the kind of "shock the WORLD" turn-around against this "killer schedule" everyone is so sure is beyond our inept grasp that ERASES all that "Napier is GONE" stuff once and for all.)

As of July 2022, the class is ranked a paltry #62 and would need to add its top 6 uncommitted recruits who have visited just to break into the top 10. If the Gators added all uncommitted recruits, the class would be around #8. This means that Florida would need to flip a few recruits in order to finish in the top 10. They would also need to flip 3 five-stars just to break into the top 5, or 10 blue chips to top Ohio State.

Well, at least we just got back our ace-recruiter to maybe give us a chance at creeping back into the race. Even with a relatively strong 2024 season, it will be steadily improving TALENT AND DEPTH that gets us to "The Promised Land".
I don't know when we'll get there--but of course THAT'S THE PLAN: The dream, the goal...always is, always has been. It really appears in retrospect that until Napier, none of the Coaches since Meyer really grasped that upon taking the job. It's just that things were in such progressively deeper disarray as the years went by that by the time Dan ("We'll worry about recruiting after the season") Mullen had been given HIS walking papers, talent wise this program had fallen to 2nd-tier-in-the-SEC status, and is only NOW really beginning to heave itself up out of the muck.

Since beating LSU the Gators have gained the following commitments:

- QB Tramell Jones (Former FSU commit)
- DL Stephon Shivers (Former UGA commit)
- OL Daniel Pierre Louis (Former FSU commit)

Class ranking has risen from #51 to #38. Still not good enough, but it is progress.

Signs are relatively good compared to where we started here, though. Lot of buzz stirring out there. If we can flip a couple more of these 5-star kids xhosinv belated interest after Saturday, we MIGHT get ourselves reasonably close to that mythical "Top Ten".