Quarterback commit for Florida Football dropped 46 spots in recruiting rankings
![A mini foam finger sits on the field at the pilon in the endzone during the first half between the Florida Gators and Vanderbilt Commodores at Steve Spurrier Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, FL on Saturday, October 7, 2023. [Matt Pendleton/Gainesville Sun]](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop,w_5472,h_3078,x_0,y_0/c_fill,w_1080,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/images%2FImagnImages%2Fmmsport%2F213%2F01hzmp18kxpwwk0mzvbn.jpg "A mini foam finger sits on the field at the pilon in the endzone during the first half between the Florida Gators and Vanderbilt Commodores at Steve Spurrier Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, FL on Saturday, October 7, 2023. [Matt Pendleton/Gainesville Sun]")
One of the ongoing feuds that is a story as old as old as time is the disconnect between Florida Football fans and recruiting rankings. We saw last season several key commits for the Gators not get the love many thought they should, and off season ranking updates only added fuel to theories that recruiting services hate Florida.
Whether or not these services have a bias against the Gators requires a deeper dive into the data, but what isn't debatable is how comical some of the swings in rankings are while there is no real football being played.
Florida Football: Will I Am
Will Griffin committed to Florida on Saturday. The four-star QB out of Tampa Jesuit is a consensus top 150 prospect and a consensus top 10 overall QB in the class of 2026.
When we profiled Griffin last week, we argued that he is a top-100 overall player. He has traits on film that work wonders in a real game but don't necessarily translate into a 7-on-7 camp, which is the fuel for the wild swings in off-season ranking adjustments we see every year.
Sure enough, Rivals came out with their updated rankings and the player who was ranked 103rd after all the films from 2023 had been watched magically got dropped to 149th.
Griffin wasn't the only one to have a wild swing in ranking. Alabama commit Jamarrion Gordon dropped 97 spots in the Rivals update. In the case of Griffin, it appears his spring game was the imputes for getting dropped. Tampa Jesuit was crushed by Lakeland 37 to 3.
But this how these industries work, they will take an entire body work from the real season and throw it away because of something that happens in a scrimmage or camp. Then once the pads come back on for real in the fall, the real players rise back up and the camp superstars are exposed for being camp superstars.
It's the cycle that played out with DJ Lagway over the last couple of seasons and we suspect this will happen with Griffin over the next two season.
In the end, if one trusts the film then any adjustments to rankings is merely semantics.
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