COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Florida Gators were dealt yet another blow Saturday when starting quarterback Malik Zaire left the game with an injury.
Zaire rushed for 23 yards on a designed quarterback keeper. The graduate transfer was tackled and came down hard on his knee. Zaire was slow to get up, slow enough that one of Florida’s trainers ran out onto the field. Zaire tried to wave him off but went down to the ground and a team of trainers started looking at his left knee.
Zaire had to sit out a play but talked Florida’s training staff and doctors into letting him go back out on the field.