The Gators first took notice of Homestead wide receiver [autotag]Cortez Mills[/autotag] after last year’s Friday Night Lights camp. Mills “dominated” the camp, according to a recent interview with Swamp 247, and has now received an offer a year later.
August 1 marked the first day that college coaches could reach out to the class of 2025, and Cortez is one of the team’s primary pass-catching targets. David Doeker, a graduate student coach that played college ball at LSU, is Mills’ main contact in Gainesville.
Doeker was the first one to reach out to him once the contact period began. He’d been looking to offer Mills for a while but was unable to do so without him being on campus. Mills speaks fondly of the Swamp and Florida faithful. He’s visited for games in the past and described the experience as “lit.”
The next step is getting Mills on campus as an offered recruit. He’ll be looking at the program with different eyes and comparing UF to some of the nation’s best. Clemson, Georgia and Michigan are a couple of the teams pushing for him right now.
Mills is a consensus four-star recruit, ranked highest by Rivals.com at No. 97 overall in the class of 2025. The On3 industry ranking, which uses a weighted average of all four major recruiting services, has him at No. 106 nationally and No. 17 among receivers in his class.
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