The damned numbers game.
Florida linebacker Jeremi Powell will not return to the Gators to use his redshirt senior season of eligibility in 2016, as first reported by Gator Country on Tuesday morning. Florida confirmed the decision through its official website on Tuesday.
Powell, a redshirt junior in 2015, would have almost certainly had two more seasons of eligibility with the Gators had he and the team wanted them. Powell was redshirted as a freshman in 2012, then had his 2013 season prematurely end after a torn ACL at Missouri.