Florida Gators head coach Jim McElwain has suspended two key players immediately from team activities and will miss the season opener against UMass, the school announced Wednesday.
“Both C’yontai and Jalen will not be involved with the team or practice due to behavior that is not acceptable,” McElwain said in a release. “By no means are these bad guys and yet consequences have been handed down. We will not look the other way when it comes to breaking of team policies. I want to echo what I said earlier, these are both fine young men who will learn and be stronger from their actions. They will also be suspended for the first game. There are life lessons in everything we do. We will be better because of it and no one person is bigger than the Florida Gators.”
Tabor is the Gators lone preseason All-American. He was previously suspended in 2015 for the Tennessee game. Lewis, a redshirt sophomore, has never been suspended before. He played in Florida’s first two games before missing more than a month in 2015 with a broken bone in his hand.
Any truth to the rumor that they got into a fist fight???
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