Xavier Nixon accepts senior bowl invitation

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mikecapshaw
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A fourth Florida Gators football player has accepted an invitation to play in a senior all-star game.

The Senior Bowl confirmed via its Twitter account that Gators left tackle Xavier Nixon will play in the 2013 Senior Bowl, which is scheduled for Jan. 26 in Mobile, Ala.

Nixon will join Gators running back Mike Gillislee in the game. Gillislee accepted his invitation on Dec. 19.

The 6-foot-6, 314-pound Nixon signed with Florida out of Fayetteville (N.C.) Jake Britt as one of the top offensive line prospects in the country in the Class of 2009.

He’s started 32 of the 45 games he’s played in at Florida, including 10 starts this season. He missed the season opener as well as the Missouri and Louisiana-Lafayette game with injuries.

Florida kicker Caleb Sturgis and safety Josh Evans have accepted invitations to play in the East-West Shrine Game, which is scheduled for Jan. 19 in St. Petersburg, Fla.

mikecapshaw
mikecapshaw
Mike Capshaw brings a wealth of experience to the Gator Country team. He’s been overseeing all editorial aspects of GatorCountry.com and Gator Country magazine by managing our team of staffers, interns and freelancers. He is now moving into a bigger role as a reporter by covering the football and basketball beats as well as providing coverage of all sports on campus. Mike’s 15 years in the business has included more than six years of covering SEC sports and recruiting at a daily newspaper in Arkansas. He has also helped launch a newspaper, magazines, websites and even a sports talk radio show. Because Mike puts family ahead of his career, he left the place where he was established when his wife received an opportunity to further her career at UF. He took a leap of faith that he could find a job in the Gainesville area and worked for a year at a newspaper group before joining the Gator Country family in November, 2011. Mike has won Florida Press Association awards for Best Sports Game Story and Best Sports Feature Story in the past two years as well as a company-wide award at his former newspaper group that includes some 60 publications, for Excellence in Sports Reporting. You can follow Mike on Twitter at @MikeCapshawGC.