It’s game week.
The Florida Gators will kick off the 2016 footballs season this Saturday at the newly coined Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. That means that the first depth chart of the year was released. Five players will miss the first game due to suspensions and the absence of Jalen Tabor, C’yontai Lewis, Tyrie Cleveland, Rick Wells and an unspecified senior
The depth chart was not filled with many surprises and 11 freshmen were listed throughout.
OFFENSE
QB — Luke Del Rio, Austin Appleby, Feleipe Franks* OR Kyle Trask*
RB — Jordan Scarlett OR Mark Thompson OR Jordan Cronkrite, Mark Herndon, Lamical Perine*
WR(X) — Antonio Callaway, Josh Hammond*, C.J. Worton
WR(Y) — Dre Massey, Brandon Powell, Freddie Swain*
WR(Z) — Brandon Powell, Ahmad Fulwood
TE — DeAndre Goolsby, Moral Stephens OR Camrin Knight
LT — David Sharpe, Kavaris Harkless
LG — Martez Ivey, Nick Buchanan OR Brandon Sandifer
C — Cameron Dillard, T.J. McCoy
RG — Tyler Jordan, Richerd Desir-Jones
RT — Fredrick Johnson, Jawaan Taylor*
DEFENSE
SDE — Jordan Sherit, Jabari Zuniga, Jachai Polite*
DT — Caleb Brantley, Cece Jefferson OR Taven Bryan
NT — Joey Ivie, Khairi Clark
WDE — Bryan Cox Jr., Keivonnis Davis OR Justus Reed
SLB — Daniel McMillian, Jeremiah Moon*
MLB — Jarrad Davis, David Reese*
WLB — Alex Anzalone, Kylan Johnson, Vosean Joseph*
CB — Quincy Wilson, Chauncey Gardner*
CB — Duke Dawson, Joseph Putu
SS — Marcus Maye, Jeawon Taylor*
FS — Nick Washington OR Marcell Harris
SPECIAL TEAMS
K — Eddy Pineiro, Jorge Powell
P — Johnny Townsend
LS — Ryan Farr
H — Johnny Townsend,
KR — Dre Massey, Brandon Powell
PR — Antonio Callaway, Brandon Powell
* denotes true freshmen