From the outside looking in, it’s easy to temper your expectations for the Gators’ tight ends this season.
After all, they lost arguably one of the best tight ends in college football history and the highest-drafted player at the position in NFL history in Kyle Pitts.
Then, it looked like they had struck gold when they secured a commitment from LSU transfer Arik Gilbert, one of the highest-ranked high school tight ends of all time. Gilbert later decommitted for personal reasons and is now at Georgia.
That means the main contributors at tight end this season will be Pitts’ backups, and there’s a steep drop-off there statistically.