After battling for the SEC championship in 2015 and six high school prospects in the 2016 class, the Tide and the Gators are already ramping up the competition for the 2017 class.

Alabama commits Xavier McKinney and Aaron Sterling have now received official offers from Florida.

Four-star S McKinney is a 6-foot-1, 170 pound junior out of Roswell, Ga. McKinney has received offers from eight other schools, including Auburn, Georgia, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Tennessee.

https://twitter.com/mckinney_xavier/status/700009903109378049

Three-star DE Sterling is a 6-foot-3, 270 pound junior out of Stone Mountain, Ga. Sterling has also received offers from five other schools, including South Carolina and Tennessee.

The Gators are also pursuing another Alabama commit: four-star OT Alex Leatherwood.

Leatherwood is a 6-foot-5, 297 pound junior out of Pensacola, Fla. Leatherwood has received offers from eight other schools, including Auburn, LSU and Tennessee.