The Florida Gators quarterbacks room has been a hot topic as of late, with the 2023 edition expected to look very different from the 2022 edition. With 2023 five-star prospect [autotag]DJ Lagway[/autotag] committed and openly recruiting for the Orange and Blue, all eyes turn to the 2025 class.
[autotag]Antwann Hill[/autotag] is among the best quarterbacks in the 2025 class, with the Florida Gators expected to be a major player in his recruitment process. The 6-foot-4-inch, 205-pound signal caller from Warner Robbins, Georgia, was offered by the Gators after an impressive showing at UF’s Friday Night Lights camp in the summer of 2022. As a result, [autotag]Billy Napier[/autotag] and his staff have been keeping tabs and creating a relationship with Hill. They were so impressed, that Napier himself has been personally involved in Hill’s recruitment.
Hill’s relationship with the Florida staff actually goes back to before he was in high school. Antwaan’s uncle is Trey Hill, a former Georgia offensive lineman who was drafted in the sixth round of the 2021 NFL fraft by the Cincinnati Bengals. One person involved in Trey’s recruitment to Georgia was [autotag]William Peagler[/autotag]. The current Florida tight ends coach was a graduate assistant on Georgia’s staff and is familiar with the Hill family.
While Peagler has a personal connection with Hill, offensive analyst Ryan O’Hara has been the main point of contact with the Houston County signal caller. Their relationship has consisted of breaking down film and building a working relationship that would translate to the UF quarterback room if he were to arrive on campus in 2025.
Despite having visited Gainesville twice, Hill has yet to see the new Bill Heavener Football Training Center. The complex opened one week after his Friday Night Lights visit and, despite being on campus for the season-opening Utah game, he was not able to see the facility after it opened up. The Gators would love to have Hill back on campus to show off the state-of-the-art facility.
They’ll need to fight off other top programs like Tennessee, Auburn, Texas A&M, Notre Dame and Georgia, who On3’s Recruiting Prediction Machine have as the leader in Hill’s recruitment with a 43% chance of signing the in-state player. Despite that, Hill is adamant that all programs have an equal chance of landing him and that he will see where the recruitment process takes him.
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