Jon Sumrall and his coaching staff has done a great job of getting prospects on campus this year and that continued on Saturday when the Gators went through spring practice.\n<\/p>\n
Defensive lineman Josh Johnson (6-5, 270, Key West, FL. High) was on campus and was glad to meet the whole staff for the first time.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was awesome,\u201d Johnson said of his visit to Florida on Saturday. \u201cIt was great to up there, great to see everybody, great to meet the coaches and great to watch practice.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
One thing that stood out to Johnson on the trip was the energy of the staff and how those guys coach at practice.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely say the energy,\u201d he said on what stood out to him. \u201cThe energy is always high, especially around Coach [Jon] Sumrall and Coach [Gerald] Chatman. Also getting to watch my position practice was great. I love the energy that Coach Chatman brings every single period. He\u2019s always bringing it and I love that he gets after his guys and I\u2019m a big fan of what he does.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Johnson was impressed by how Sumrall and his staff run practice and how they have energy throughout the practice.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI love how organized it was and how serious it was,\u201d Johnson said of practice. \u201cLike they weren\u2019t playing around, and the energy was up the whole time. The guys were going hard so it was definitely good to see that.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Defensive line coach Gerald Chatman met with Johnson after practice and explained to him what the Gators like about his game and how he would fit into the program.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe likes my speed, my strength and my size,\u201d he said on what Chatman likes about his game. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019d be a good fit for Florida and also kind of my versatility that I could play defensive tackle and I could also play defensive end. He really likes that about my game and that\u2019s one of the reasons that he thought I\u2019d be a good fit at Florida.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Saturday was also a chance for Johnson to meet with Sumrall again and for the first time since Sumrall arrived in Gainesville.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great to meet him, kind of ironic how we met at Tulane and now he\u2019s at Florida,\u201d Johnson said of meeting with Sumrall. \u201cYou know it was great to see him, he\u2019s kind of told me you know that I\u2019m wanted at Florida and told me that I would be a big help to defensive side of the ball right now.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
After the visit, Johnson says the Gators are right there with the Hurricanes as the defensive lineman really likes the staff in Gainesville.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cFlorida is definitely top two,\u201d he said of where Florida stands for him. \u201cSuper close with Miami, it\u2019s going to be a very tough decision when I have to make that decision, but I was thinking of maybe dropping my top two pretty soon and Florida and Miami would be in there.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Next up for Johnson will be more trips to Gainesville and Miami as he hopes to get a better idea on where he wants to attend college.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to go up for another spring practice and maybe the spring game,\u201d Johnson said of getting back to Florida. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to make my decision like before official visits, but I think at some point I\u2019m just going to like wake up and be like Oh I\u2019m a Gator or oh I\u2019m a Hurricane. I think that day could be coming pretty soon, I just need to get back up to practice some more and kind of figure some things out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Sumrall and his coaching staff has done a great job of getting prospects on campus this year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-183423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}