Florida senior offensive lineman reportedly returning for 6th year
A Florida offensive lineman will be taking advantage of the NCAA’s “free year” due to COVID to play a sixth season of college football.
Starting right guard Stewart Reese is returning to UF for the 2021 season, his mother told G. Allan Taylor of The Athletic. After four seasons at Mississippi State (2016-19), Reese reunited with his former head coach, Dan Mullen, and offensive line coach, John Hevesy, by transferring to Florida in May of 2020.
From Fort Pierce, Florida, Reese was a 3-star prospect in the class of 2016. He redshirted his first year in Starkville and has since recorded 46 starts in his college football career with the Bulldogs and the Gators.
Two Gator starting linemen who were seniors in 2020, Stone Forsythe and Brett Heggie, have signed with agents as they prepare for the NFL Draft.
Florida fans will be hoping that Reese’s play benefits from a full offseason in Gainesville receiving instruction from Hevesy and strength coach Nick Savage. His younger brother, linebacker David Reese, inked with UF in 2018 out of high school as part of the Mullen staff’s transition signing class.
He’s a load and that helps with the loss of Heggie.
Welcome back and looking forward to you dominating in 2021!
This is huge news. Our line struggled quite a bit before Reese showed up. He is a great in game coach on the line and can play multiple positions. Great glue guy. Go Gators!
Good news. This maybe allows Braun to play right tackle. He and Reese would be a load on the right side of the line. Or, White to play center, Braun left guard, and Tarquin starts at right tackle (or Delance if he returns).
Delance? If we have no better choice than Delance for starting OL, then i hope someone can light a fire under his tail.
I hate to say it but Delance is not going to help this line. He seems to quit after first contact.
It was for the best since his kid`s school is closeby