{"id":85012,"date":"2025-12-16T08:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85012\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T08:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:25:18","slug":"dj-lagway-to-enter-transfer-portal-florida-gators-quarterback-exiting-team-after-billy-napier-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85012\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Lagway to enter transfer portal: Florida Gators quarterback exiting team after Billy Napier ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"image-credits\">Image Credit: <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Vasquez, UAA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida Gators sophomore quarterback DJ Lagway is set to enter the transfer portal after his second season with the team, according to ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel. Lagway, a five-star prospect who largely committed to Florida due to the presence of head coach Billy Napier, appears to be seeking a new program after his coach was fired in the midst of his fourth year leading the team.<\/p>\n<p>Impressing as a true freshman after replacing injured starting QB Graham Mertz, Lagway completed 60% of his passes or 1,915 yards with 12 touchdowns and nine interceptions. However, he became a turnover machine in 2025, completing 63% of his passes for 2,264 yards with 16 touchdowns and 14 interceptions while starting all 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>Only Gators will update this breaking news story shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image Credit: Lorenzo Vasquez, UAA Florida Gators sophomore quarterback DJ Lagway is set to enter the transfer portal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3009,7385,28,30,29,46266],"class_list":{"0":"post-85012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-billy-napier","9":"tag-dj-lagway","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-transfer-portal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85012","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=85012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}