Florida football 2024 recruiting class: Meet UF’s signees

The Florida football roster will undergo more significant transition entering the 2024 season.

The Florida Gators, coming off a 5-7 season in year two under head coach Billy Napier, has signed a 2024 class that includes 19 high school players and 11 transfers. The 30 new scholarship players account for a turnover of 35.3 percent on UF’s 85-man scholarship roster.

UF’s 2024 high school class, ranked as high as third nationally last September, currently stands at 14th nationally, per 247Sports composite. Eight blue-chip prospects — including four ranked among the top 100 in the 247Sports Composite — decommitted from the Florida from September to early National Signing Day in December.

Some of it had to do with UF’s five-game losing streak to close the 2023 season, while others left because Florida fired secondary coach Corey Raymond and defensive line coach Sean Spencer in early December. Five-star safety Xavier Filsaime, for example, told The Athletic that UF’s decision to fire Raymond played a factor in his decision to flip from the Gators to Texas.

What remains is a solid if not spectacular class that includes seven Top 200 national recruits, led by five-star quarterback and Gatorade National Player of the Year D.J. Lagway and five-star edge rusher