Emory Jones had the best game of his young career against Vanderbilt last Saturday. The redshirt freshman rushed five times for 34 yards and three touchdowns — a career-high.
When Feleipe Franks went down with a season-ending injury there was an 800-pound elephant in the room. Who would start for the Florida Gators? Would it be Kyle Trask, the Texas gunslinger who hadn’t started a football game since his freshman year of high school? Or would the player Mullen recruited, a player with the kind of athleticism that has produced the best Dan Mullen offenses and the player deemed the future of the program start?