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Florida committed to ‘open-ended’ QB approach

Head coach Billy Napier kept quiet last week when asked how they plan on using Graham Mertz and DJ Lagway at quarterback against Texas A&M. It didn’t take long to realize that Florida was alternating drives with both quarterbacks, regardless of outcome. Napier confirmed this after the game.

“We ultimately made a commitment to rotate the players a certain progression, a certain way, regardless of the outcome, basically just to keep those guys in a good frame of mind relative to not looking over their shoulder.”

“I think we felt like it was in the best interest of the team to do it that way, and we did it.