{"id":315902,"date":"2026-06-22T18:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315902\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:14:10","slug":"florida-closes-late-again-the-gators-stole-tre-geathers-right-from-tennessee-2027-class-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315902\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Closes Late AGAIN: The Gators Stole Tre Geathers Right From Tennessee + 2027 Class Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the Gators closed late to steal linebacker Tre Geathers from Tennessee, plus the latest Florida 2027 recruiting class updates. (Gators Breakdown)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Florida didn\u2019t offer Tre Geathers until April and sat behind Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina, but the Gators closed late and beat them all for the Charlotte linebacker. We break down the official visit that flipped it, the SAM-to-box plan Brad White and Greg Gasparato sold him on, and what his film says about his upside. Then we zoom out to Florida\u2019s surging 2027 class and the Raheem Floyd and Kamauri Whitfield decisions on deck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 knsIYg fSvavs article-text\">This story originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/GatorsBreakdown.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/GatorsBreakdown.com\">GatorsBreakdown.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 knsIYg fSvavs article-text\">Want more Gators Breakdown? <a href=\"https:\/\/gatorsbreakdown.supportingcast.fm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Join Gators Breakdown Plus<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 knsIYg fSvavs article-text\">Get Gators Breakdown merchandise. <a href=\"https:\/\/gatorsbreakdownpod.creator-spring.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shop here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 knsIYg fSvavs article-text\">LISTEN: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4jax.com\/gatorsbreakdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catch up on previous episodes<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/news4jax.com\/gatorsbreakdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> of Gators Breakdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 knsIYg fSvavs article-text\">Follow David Waters on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gatordave_sec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@GatorDave_SEC<\/a> to stay plugged in, or click one of the following to tune in:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 knsIYg fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.megaphone.fm\/channel\/gatorsbreakdown?selected=JXT2975844882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Megaphone<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/gators-breakdown\/id1169061256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/gatorsbreakdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1nLRyUN4rWzgTy0Tu0HjGQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4Jax &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How the Gators closed late to steal linebacker Tre Geathers from Tennessee, plus the latest Florida 2027 recruiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72992,28,2530,6082,33748,41253,30,29,33747,72991,86430,86429,10712],"class_list":["post-315902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-david-waters-gators","tag-florida","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-gators-football","tag-florida-gators-news","tag-florida-gators-recruiting","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gators-breakdown","tag-gators-breakdown-podcast","tag-gators-football-news","tag-gatorsbreakdown-podcast","tag-jon-sumrall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315902","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=315902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}