The annual batch of season-opening Florida suspensions is here
At this point, it’s smaller than 2017’s.
Seven Florida football players are suspended for the Gators’ Week 1 game against Charleston Southern on Saturday. That’s fewer than the nine who were suspended at the start of the 2018 season, amid a credit card fraud investigation, but it’s more than the two who got suspended right before 2016’s opener.
The suspended Gators for the start of this season, per Gator Country:
- Senior defensive lineman CeCe Jefferson
- Sophomore receiver Kadarius Toney
- Sophomore defensive lineman Kyree Campbell
- Redshirt junior defensive lineman Luke Ancrum
- Sophomore cornerback Brian Edwards
- Sophomore running back Adarius Lemons
- Walk-on freshman James Washington
The suspensions are for “not living up to the Gator standard,” Gator Country says.
Some of the names on that list also appeared in an offseason story about an incident that involved a frying pan wielded as a weapon and one player having an AR-15 “for protection because of the locals” in the backseat of a car. But it’s not exactly clear why everyone on that list is out. (Dan Mullen’s made clear his team has a no-weapons policy but that players can still have guns.)