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DT Jeremiah McCloud hits a sled during a practice drill on Tuesday (Photo by Chris Spears) The pads go on and football gets very serious for the Florida Gators today. With 24 days remaining until the season opener with Florida Atlantic at The Swamp, Jon Sumrall has 93 players on scholarship, 45 on offense, 42 on defense and six on special teams. Talent isn’t an issue for Sumrall and the Gators, but depth and experience pose potential issues at several positions, starting with quarterback...

Aaron Philo (12) and Tramell Jones (9) await a rep at QB (Photo by Chris Spears) If you hold your breath waiting for Jon Sumrall to name a starting quarterback for the Gators’ season opener with Florida Atlantic four Saturdays from now, you’ll turn blue, pass out and the paramedics will have to be called to revive you. Sumrall has a competitive war being waged between Aaron Philo and Tramell Jones Jr. for the No. 1 job, which suits him just fine but to give the edge to one or the other? Well,...

Tramell Jones Jr. cuts loose with a pass in practice (Photo by Chris Spears) New head coach. New offensive coordinator bringing his protégé of the last two years with him. Stacked deck is what it looked like. Transfer? That would have been the easy way out and an ample number of suitors would have been happy as clams to woo Tramell Jones Jr., the strong-armed redshirt freshman quarterback at Florida. Instead of packing up and heading to a new locale, Jones elected to give Jon Sumrall a...