This first day of the Early Signing Period in major college football — known as Early Signing Day far and wide even if that isn’t technically the correct name for the day, because National Signing Day needed a December equivalent — dawned with the Florida Gators knowing a lot more than they did on the two prior Early Signing Days with Dan Mullen presiding over affairs in Gainesville.
There is no blue-chip quarterback prospect being pursued, as Emory Jones was in 2017. There is no blue-chip trio of in-state recruits set to announce — likely for Florida — in one ceremony, as there was last year when Lakeland teammates Deyavie Hammond, Lloyd Summerall, and Keon Zipperer made the call for the Gators.