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Good Morning Gators: Florida football continues to bolster walk-on roster

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New Gators PWO commit Nicolas Flynn. (Photo courtesy of Flynn)

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Billy Napier and his staff continue to build and bolster Florida’s walk-on roster, with Nicolas Flynn being the latest addition.

He announced his commitment to the Gators on Monday. UF offered Flynn a preferred walk-on spot on Feb. 15 and hosted him for the spring game.

The 6-foot-4, 310-pound Flynn also had a PWO offer from Louisville and visited the school March 8.

Napier revealed a unique plan for his walk-on program back in January. The new skipper wants to maximize the walk-on capacity of his squad.

College football teams can have up to 125 active players, with a maximum of 85 scholarship players. The average Division 1 FBS roster has 118 football players, with over 30 walk-ons per roster.

Napier, however, would like up to 50 walk-ons.

“We’re going to approach 130 — somewhere around that number — players. We have 85 scholarship players, and the goal is to have a 50-man walk-on roster,” Napier said. “That ratio there, when you really think about coach-to-player ratio, if you evaluate other sports, I think that coach-to-player ratio is much smaller.”

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Since Napier’s comments on Jan. 14, Florida has added at least nine preferred walk-ons to the 2022 roster. They will join the 22 walk-ons already on the team, giving the Gators 31 total for now.

LB Bryce Capers (Jan. 24)
OL Jackson Crozier (Jan. 31)
TE Scott Isacks (Feb. 1)
WR Alex Gonzalez (Feb. 2)
JUCO DT Keenan Landry (April 11)
DB Cruz Rushing (April 25)
Temple LB Kenneth Anyaehie (April 29)
DB Javion Toombs (May 14)
OL Nick Flynn (May 23)

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