The transfer portal is closed for business in terms of anyone from Florida Football being able to hop into it for now. As a whole, the Gators had 17 members of the 2024 squad hop into the portal, which is less than the 23 players who entered the portal last off-season.
Some of the players who hit the portal were necessary attrition, while others would have been nice players to keep around.
The following is our ranking of which portal losses will hurt the least and which ones we think will hurt the most.
#17 – Parker Leise (QB)
Even though he was out of IMG, the odds that Parker Leise was ever going to see the field were low. He was at best the 5th string QB for Florida entering this season and even when Graham Mertz and DJ Lagway went down Leise never had his name pop up.
Not much to say here. Andre Morris joined as a walk-on out of Tampa Jesuit but never took a snap in two years with the program.
#15 Bryce Capers – (DL)
Came to Florida as a walk-on and actually did make it on the field three times in 2022 and against Samford this year. He leaves Gainesville, though, without having recorded a tackle.
Another walk-on who only played in two games over three years with Florida, Zak Sedaros actually has some legit speed to him. He ran a wind-legal 10.61 seconds for the 100-meter dash in high school and was 5th at the Florida 4A state championships in 2021 in the 100.
#13 – Christian Williams (OL)
A lower-rated three-star coming out of high school, Christian Williams took some mop-up snaps over his three years in Gainesville but never cracked the main rotation.
Listed at 6’6″, Mike Williams had some size to him even though he also wasn’t rated very high. He was seen as a long-term project but is leaving after just one year in Gainesville.
#11 – Deuce Spurlock (LB)
When he came to Florida from Michigan ahead of the 2023 campaign, there was hope the Gators were getting an up-and-coming depth piece. But Spurlock didn’t see the field much in 2023 and didn’t see the field at all in 2024.
