Rotational player at WR for Florida Football hits the transfer portal

The wide receiver room for Florida Football has been a massive talking point this offseason. The Gators are having their top two receivers from 2024 graduate, and there is no clear-cut answer as to what the rotation will look like in 2025.

One player who was getting an uptick in snaps to close out the season won't be part of that rotation as he is off to the transfer portal now that the season has ended.

Florida Football: Third in line

Marcus Burke has entered his name into the transfer portal. Burke was a top 200 overall prospect from the class of 2021, Dan Mullen's last official class with Florida, and saw his snap count increase each year.

Burke posted on X confirmation of his intentions.

After taking 132 snaps in 2023, Burke saw his snap count raised to 212 in 2024. After not taking more than 19 snaps the first five games of the season, Burke was hurt against UCF and missed the game against Tennessee and Kentucky.

Burke came back, however, and took at least 24 snaps in five of the final six games the Gators played in. He finished the year with seven catches for 69 yards and has 19 catches for 270 yards in his Gator career.

What's notable about Burke is that he was Florida's third most-used wide receiver down the stretch. Even though most Gator fans have high hopes for guys like Aidan Mizell and Tank Hawkins having a breakout year in 2025, the only two wide receivers who got more snaps than Burke against Ole Miss, FSU, and Tulane were Elijhah Badger and Chimere Dike.

But with Eugene Wilson coming back, along with transfer portal addition J.Michael Sturdivant and freshmen five-star receivers Vernell Brown and Dallas Wilson, on top of Mizell and Hawkins, Burke would have had an offseason battle on his hands to try and secure one of the rotational slots for Florida in 2025.

Burke hits the portal with one year of eligibility left.