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Gators to get recently offered WR on campus in late March

The end of the month is filling up with big-name visits.

We are a little more than halfway through March and Florida football’s recruiting efforts continue to roll along as the spring schedule continues to unfurl. [autotag]Billy Napier[/autotag] and Co. have been working hard at getting the top prep prospects on campus to see what the Swamp has to offer them, and recently, another big name added Gainesville to his itinerary.

Four-star wide receiver [autotag]Chance Robinson[/autotag] out of Fort Lauderdale (Florida) St. Thomas Aquinas recently told Gators Online that he plans to pay a visit with the Orange and Blue on March 25 — his first face-to-face meeting with the Gators since receiving an offer from former assistant coach [autotag]Keary Colbert[/autotag] back in January. He previously attended last year’s Orange and Blue Game.

Colbert had been spearheading the efforts to lure the high school junior to Florida before departing for the NFL, leaving running backs quality control coach [autotag]Benedick Hyppolite[/autotag] and assistant receivers coach [autotag]David Doeker[/autotag] in charge until the arrival of wide receivers coach [autotag]Billy Gonzalez[/autotag].

“It’s still good. Everyone from the staff is still reaching out to me. Coach Hyppolite is always working with the receivers and reaching out to me. He’s also a South Florida guy,” Robinson told Gators Online.

The 6-foot-1-inch, 180-pound pass-catcher has been considering official visits to see the Georgia Bulldogs, Auburn Tigers and Penn State Nittany Lions while also receiving offers from the Alabama Crimson Tide, Michigan Wolverines, Miami Hurricanes, LSU Tigers, Tennessee Volunteers and South Carolina Gamecocks, among others.

Robinson is ranked No. 107 overall and No. 19 at his position nationally according to the 247Sports composite while the On3 industry ranking has him at Nos. 92 and 17, respectively. On3’s Recruiting Prediction Machine currently has the Florida State Seminoles ahead of the pack for his talents with a 37.8% chance of landing him, while the Hurricanes, Gators and Nittany Lions trail behind at 22.4%, 10.1% and 8.4%, respectively.

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Top 2024 LSU Tigers commit talks Florida visit this spring

The Gators are looking to poach this fellow SEC’s recruit.

One of the best wide receivers in the 2024 class has expressed an interest in visiting the Florida Gators, despite being committed to the LSU Tigers since July 2022.

Joseph Stone has been on the Gators’ radar since [autotag]Dan Mullen[/autotag] was in charge of the football program. When [autotag]Billy Napier[/autotag] took over, Stone’s offer from the Orange and Blue was rescinded, but not for long. Napier reoffered the Fairburn, Georgia, native and has been recruiting him relentlessly ever since.

Stone, a 5-foot-11-inch, 180-pound, four-star prospect recently told 247Sports that multiple Florida coaches have been building a relationship with him, something that Mullen’s staff did not do. Wide receivers coach [autotag]Keary Colbert[/autotag] and assistant wide receivers coach [autotag]David Doeker[/autotag] have been Stone’s primary points of contact throughout the recruitment process. Both coaches have shown how much attention to detail they pay, telling Stone exactly the things they like in his game such as his twitch and the discipline he shows in his game.

Despite having conversations with the Gators’ staff, Stone has been committed to LSU for over six months. He is currently one of eight members of LSU’s 2024 class, with 247Sports listing him as the second-highest recruit in the class. Not only will Florida have to convince Stone to flip, but they will also have to fight off programs such as Miami, Texas A&M, Penn State, Oklahoma, and Florida State, just to name a few schools that Stone has expressed interest in visiting.

With no official date in sight for Stone’s visit to Gainesville, he did mention March or April as possible dates to make his first visit to The Swamp since Napier took over.

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