Gervon Dexter enrolled at Florida last summer as perhaps the most-hyped recruit the Gators have signed over the past decade or so.
The defensive tackle was the first composite five-star prospect they’d signed from the high school ranks in five years. At 6-foot-6 and 303 pounds, he looked like he belonged 1 ½ hours up the road at the Jacksonville Jaguars’ facility instead of in college. He’s strong enough to power through some linemen and athletic enough to blow past others.
Then there’s the sentimental aspect of Dexter’s recruitment. He committed to the Gators when he was a lowly ranked recruit that wasn’t even on the radar of most Power Five schools and stuck with them despite multiple pushes from Georgia.