{"id":303266,"date":"2025-11-20T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/303266\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:43:07","slug":"george-gumbs-jr-to-have-surgery-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/303266\/","title":{"rendered":"George Gumbs Jr. to have surgery this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Gators EDGE\u00a0George Gumbs Jr.<\/a>\u00a0will have surgery this week on his right knee, Gators Online has confirmed. According to a person close to Gumbs, \u201cit\u2019s not anything serious.\u201d <\/p>\n

While surgery this late in the season would seem likely to end Gumbs\u2019 2025 campaign, the source noted it might not be entirely out of the question that Gumbs is able to return for UF\u2019s finale Nov. 29 vs. FSU. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t rule it out yet,\u201d the person said.<\/p>\n

Gumbs, a redshirt senior, leads UF with 6.5 tackles for loss and is second on the team with 2.5 sacks. He has 31 total tackles, with 14 solo stops.<\/p>\n

Monday, Gumbs discussed this week\u2019s game vs. Tennessee with the media in Gainesville. His belief was having played an up-tempo team in Ole Miss last week would benefit the Gators on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like that will definitely help just having some practice at it,\u201d Gumbs said. \u201cI feel like we\u2019re going against an up tempo team, we\u2019ve got to win on first and second down. You get in those games, small gains on first and second down, you\u2019re really not going nowhere. So it\u2019s really hard to go tempo when you do that, so I feel like that will be effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Per his official UF bio, here are Gumbs\u2019 highlights this season:<\/p>\n

vs. LIU:\u00a0Started the season opener for the Gators on the defensive line, recording two tackles (one solo), a quarterback hurry, 0.5 sacks and 1.5 TFLs\u00a0for four yards across 18 total snaps. Breaking past his previous PFF Defensive grade (81.1)\u00a0with a 91.9 grade.<\/p>\n

vs. USF:\u00a0Recorded three tackles (one solo) and a quarterback hurry, in 51 total snaps (40 defensive and 11 special teams) as the Gators starting edge. Earned a PFF Tackle grade of 76.6 against the Bulls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

at No. 3 LSU:\u00a0Started his third game of the season at edge\u2026 Played 42 snaps (31 defensive and 11 special teams)\u2026 Made a season high five tackles (two solo) as a Gator with 1.0 TFL for 17 yards and one forced fumble\u2026 Earned a PFF Defense grade of 78.4.<\/p>\n

at No. 4 Miami:\u00a0Did not see action<\/p>\n

vs. No. 9 Texas:\u00a0Returned as Gators starting defensive end\u2026 Played a total of 35 snaps on defense and two snaps on special teams\u2026 Recorded 1.0 sack for a two yard loss and a quarterback hurry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

at No. 5 Texas A&M:\u00a0Played 36 snaps (29 on defense and seven on special teams)\u2026 Credited with two tackles and earned a PFF Tackle grade of 75.2.<\/p>\n

vs. Mississippi State:\u00a0Made one tackle on 49 snaps (45 defensive and four special teams) as the starting edge\u2026 Earned a PFF Tackle grade of 73.0.<\/p>\n

vs. No. 5 Georgia:\u00a0Recorded nine tackles (four solo), one sack for a five yard loss and one quarterback hurry on 58 snaps (52 defensive and six special teams). Earned a PFF Tackle grade of 80.4.\u00a0<\/p>\n

at Kentucky:\u00a0Played 46 snaps (38 defense and eight special teams) and recorded five tackles (three solo) with 1.0 TFL for one yard. Recorded his first fumble recovery of the season with a nine yard return.\u00a0<\/p>\n

at No. 7 Ole Miss:\u00a0Totaled three tackles (two solo), 1.0 TFL for one yard and forced a fumble in 63 snaps (57 on defense and six on special teams).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gators EDGE\u00a0George Gumbs Jr.\u00a0will have surgery this week on his right knee, Gators Online has confirmed. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,42156,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-303266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-george-gumbs-21-simeon","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}