Florida’s Jake Allen to transfer, citing “fit” on offense

Once upon a time, most of Gator Nation rejoiced when Jake Allen committed to the Florida Gators. On this Tuesday night, after announcing his intention to transfer, he’ll get mostly shrugs and nods.

Allen took to Twitter in the evening to announce a rather unsurprising decision to transfer away from Florida.

Allen was no better than fourth on Florida’s depth chart at the position, behind both redshirt sophomores and spring game starters Feleipe Franks and Kyle Trask and true freshman Emory Jones, and he was, as he correctly notes in his explanation, a poor fit for new Florida head coach Dan Mullen’s spread-based offense, one that will require more from the legs of whichever passer ultimately…