Former five-star, Florida running back Demarkcus Bowman enters transfer portal

According to Matt Zenitz of On3, Florida Gators running back Demarkcus Bowman has entered the NCAA transfer portal. This will be his second time going through the process, originally signing with the Clemson Tigers before making his way down to Gainesville.

Bowman is from Lakeland, FL, and was a reserve running back for the Gators last season. He appeared in five games as a redshirt freshman, rushing for 81 yards on 14 carries. His career-high came against South Florida, having 33 rushing yards on three carries against the Bulls.

Coming out of high school, Bowman was rated a five-star prospect by the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting services. Bowman signed with Clemson as one of the top members of their 2020 class but left after taking his redshirt season. Wanting to play closer to home back in Florida, Bowman will now be looking for a third collegiate program to play for.

Even though he has been on the move before, Bowman should be a popular man in the transfer portal. While the numbers have not been there on the field quite yet, the potential is still untapped on the running back. All it will take is one coach to unlock his ability and see the results drastically improve.

Florida Gators QB Anthony Richardson discusses Billy Napier’s offense

When rumors started swirling about Napier’s candidacy to replace Dan Mullen at Florida, quarterback Anthony Richardson decided to do some homework. He watched some film to see how Louisiana ran its offense with Levi Lewis under center. He liked what he saw, and thinks he’ll be a good fit into Napier’s system.

“Watching some of their games from last year, even hearing about Coach Napier and them considering him, I started watching some of the games just to see what was going to happen,” Richardson said. “And watching Levi play, that was their old quarterback, that put me in good hands because we have similar skill sets.

“I talked to coach Napier and coach Ryan O’Hara when they came in and they told me I was going to fit well in their offense. Then I went through spring, I think I do fit well in the offense so we’ll see how that goes.”

In Florida’s spring game, Richardson 18 of 24 passes for 207 yards and two touchdowns to help the Blue Team to a 34-0 victory.