Predictions for the Florida Football wide receiver depth chart in 2025

The wide receiver room for Florida Football is going to be a fascinating focal point heading into the 2025 season. The Gators have added freshmen two-five star receivers (Dallas Wilson and Vernell Brown), four-star Naeshaun Montgomery, three-star Muizz Tounkara, transfer J.Michael Sturdivant from UCLA, and have had predictions logged that they are going to land former five-star Johntay Cook out of Texas.

Returning for Florida is Eugene Wilson, Aidan Mizell, Tank Hawkins, TJ Abrams, and

As we noted earlier in the week, this room has a ton of high-end potential but will also be a massive wildcard, given Sturdivant will be the only guy in the room who had more than 300 yards in 2024.

Florida will have a tune-up game against Long Island University and a matchup with USF before they have to travel to LSU, so the Gators are going to have a couple of games to figure things out before starting SEC play.

With that in mind, we are going to do our best to predict who emerges from this room in 2025 to actually take the field and play.

First Team

• Eugene Wilson
• J.Michael Sturdivant
• Aidan Mizell

Two of these feel pretty clear-cut as to what Napier will do in 2025. While our hope is that Wilson gets his role expanded beyond jet sweeps, he had a primary role in the offense when he was actually on the field in 2024.

Wilson had seven catches against Miami, and even after his missed time against Mississippi State and UCF, he still came back to take 57 snaps against Tennessee before his hip issue wound up ending his season. It feels like his throne to reclaim once healthy.

Even though there are a ton of flashing red lights when it comes to the metrics for J.Michael Sturdivant (namely an alarmingly low yards per route run in 2024), there is also enough flash on film and enough high-end potential that is going to get him on the field more than likely to start the 2025 campaign with the hope of being a primary target for DJ Lagway.

As we all know, Florida runs a bunch of 12 personnel, so this will limit opportunities behind them. And projecting who is going to line up where is fluid (Wilson, for example, has a 55/45 split of lining up out wide versus in the slot).

Aidan Mizell had a similar split in 2024 of where he lined up and feels like he would be the guy to join this top unit to start the season. He has had flashes of being someone ready to step up and, even in the Gasparilla Bowl, had a sneaky four catches for 50 yards off 24 total snaps, 12 of which were a pass.

However, it is also difficult to figure out what the coaching staff actually thinks about Mizell, given that Marcus Burke was beating him out for snaps to close out the season.

Second Team

• Dallas Wilson
• Johntay Cook
• Tank Hawkins

Projecting who makes the second team is a much more difficult task because someone of note is going to get left out in the cold. And personally, this might not be the most optimal group, but it is trying to get in the mind of Napier.

Keeping in mind that Napier tends to drag his feet on playing freshmen out of the gate, Dallas Wilson still feels like he would get a look early simply because of his size. He could get rotated in along the outside the easiest.

Johntay Cook isn't even officially a Gator yet, but there are plenty of predictions out there that he will land in Gainesville. He's a former five-star who hasn't seen the field much at Texas and got buried behind a host of transfers the Longhorns brought in this season.

Assuming he winds up at Florida, he also feels like one of the biggest wildcards in the group. Unlike Sturdivant, there isn't a ton of flash on film since he has arrived in college. But we would have to imagine that if Napier is going through all this trouble to land him, he has a vision for him.

Tank Hawkins making it to the second unit ahead of Vernell Brown also doesn't feel set in stone, but again, this is about Napier's preference and fit. Napier doesn't tend to like to play true freshmen a ton of snaps out of the gate, and Hawkins is the fastest player on the roster.

The Rest

Leaving Brown out doesn't feel great, and for the record, we like his upside potential better than some other guys on this list, but again, we are trying to envision how Napier is going to assemble his puzzle. The reality is that he has options for small but fast playmakers, which Brown is, and not as many options as the complimenting taller receiver, which is why Dallas Wilson probably sees the field before Brown.

The rest of the room also had potential talent, and perhaps during the spring season, someone will surprise us, but it is hard to bet money on any of them cracking the room as it looks like it will shape up.