If you look at the list of the 17 high school players who signed with the Gators in the 2022 class, there’s one glaring problem – a lack of Floridians.
Only five signees call the Sunshine State home, and two of them were already committed when Billy Napier took the Florida job. An additional signee, offensive lineman David Conner, played his senior year of high school football in Florida but has spent most of his life in Atlanta.
Florida is regarded as the most talent-rich state in the country, and out-of-state programs such as Alabama, Georgia and Clemson have successfully raided the state in recent years and left the Gators with the leftovers.