![Florida head coach Jon Sumrall speaks after spring practice at Sanders Practice Fields in Gainesville, FL on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. [Alan Youngblood/Gainesville Sun]](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop,x_0,y_0,w_2680,h_1507/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/images/ImagnImages/mmsport/213/01ktqmxhqa7ayss7dcqk.jpg "Florida head coach Jon Sumrall speaks after spring practice at Sanders Practice Fields in Gainesville, FL on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. [Alan Youngblood/Gainesville Sun]")
As Florida gears up for yet another recruiting weekend, the Gators are starting to see the ebbs and flows of the class of 2027 taking flight. Florida is figuring out the status of Kennedee Jackson, who committed to Florida but still took a visit to Georgia, and just found out wide receiver Amare Patterson isn’t taking his visit to Gainesville.
On the plus side, five-star wide receiver Easton Royal is set to be in town and would be a massive coup for Jon Sumrall and friends.
The thing is, even if Patterson and Royal don’t wind up as Gators, don’t let that take away from the wide receiver group Florida already has locked up for the class of 2027.
Florida’s wide receiver commits are in good shape
Royal will be the headliner this weekend, and make no mistake: he is the real deal. We have written plenty about Royal over the last few months, and the 10.17-second 100-meter dash he ran last month is a reminder of the type of speed he possesses that, simply put, almost no one else in the country has.
But if Royal sticks with his current commitment to Texas and Patterson winds up with South Carolina, rivals will try to troll Florida.
The problem is that those rivals will be neglecting the fact that Florida already has three quality wide receivers in this class of 2027. Elias Pearl had 20 total TDs last year, Tramond Collins had 16, and the “third” wide receiver from this group, Anthony Jennings, had 12. This trio alone is good enough to be a productive group by itself, and anything else that Florida lands moving forward would simply be icing on the cake.
Mind you, that doesn’t even factor in that Florida is the running for fellow five-star wide receiver Eric McFarland, though the odds of landing him feel lower than landing Royal.
So as this all shakes out, it’s okay to dream big. Just know that as recruiting will start to be mostly settled in the next month, Florida is in a much stronger position than it has been in past seasons.
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