Three notable observations for the recruiting class of 2025 for Florida Football

Florida Football picked up the final commit yesterday for the class of 2025 with the flip of Tennessee commit Onis Konanbanny. His commitment gives Florida 26 commits for their class of 2025, with 19 players already on campus going through spring workouts.

Combined with rankings updates, the Gators are ranked 8th in the 247 team rankings and 11th in the On3 team rankings.

It's with that in mind we have three observations on how the final class of 2025 looks.

Florida salvaged a dumpster fire

As you may have heard once or 73 times, Florida's recruiting class was dead in the water as recently as October. The Gators had minimal momentum coming out of summer as almost every high school prospect told insiders they wanted to see how Florida looked on the field before making a decision.

Spoiler alert: Florida looked awful at the start of the season and was next to last in the SEC in recruiting team rankings.

As Florida finished the season with a flurry, the Gators were able to cycle back to several prospects and pull off a string of flips, headlined by landing five-star wide receiver Dallas Wilson.

Florida loaded up on skill positions

In addition to Wilson, Florida also landed Vernell Brown, Ben Hanks, Hylton Stubbs, Lagonza Hayward, Waltez Clark, and Byron Louis.

Depending on how the rest of the depth and injuries shake out, all of these players have the potential to be key contributors by the end of the 2025 season, and all feel the most ready to step on the field and make an immediate impact.

This class is solid, but it is not elite

A top-ten class gives Florida enough talent to work with to stay relevant on a national landscape.

But the irony of this class is that part of the boost in ranking is because of some filler players that Billy Napier hadn't taken before. In 2023, Napier only took 22 commits, but 18 were four stars.

Last year, Florida only took 21 commits, but 14 of them were a five-star or a four-star.

So while Florida took 26 commits in this cycle, 16 are four-star, and the blue-chip ratio of 61% is the lowest ratio Napier has had in his past three classes.

While the headline will be that Florida is in the top ten, the reality is that their average player rating is behind that of Tennessee, LSU, Texas A&M, and Notre Dame and is tied with Missouri, and is just a tick ahead of Miami and Oklahoma.