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Just a few weeks ago, Florida football’s quarterback situation appeared to be in chaos. Speculation swirled about whether DJ Lagway might need a redshirt season or even a benching as the Gators stumbled to a 1-3 start. Coming off a stretch of ugly losses to Miami, LSU, and South Florida, and seen wearing a walking […]

Florida football’s 2025 season is spiraling. At 1-3, the Gators are staring at a brutal schedule while dealing with their most pressing question yet: what to do with quarterback DJ Lagway. Once billed as a Heisman contender, Lagway’s year has been marred by turnovers, sacks, and now a walking boot. The uncertainty has triggered speculation […]

Florida football fans could be seeing the last of DJ Lagway. At least for the rest of the 2025 season. New questions have risen on the Gainesville campus, across the Southeastern Conference, and the nation: Will the once hyped Heisman Trophy contender Lagway redshirt? Or take a benching? Even if the former is the move […]

The 2025 Florida football season has gotten off to a disastrous start for the Gators. They had bigger expectations after the way they finished last season, but they look even worse this year. Billy Napier has been feeling the heat as head coach, and it also does not help that DJ Lagway has not looked […]

The Billy Napier era at Florida continues to unravel. Brought in to restore Gators football to national relevance, Napier instead has overseen mediocrity and mounting off-field chaos. The Florida football team has yet to finish above .500 under his watch, and his overall record now sits at 20-21. Despite strong recruiting results, with three straight […]

Fans of the Florida Gators football program have been holding their breath for the better part of the last months in hopes of hearing positive news on the DJ Lagway front. Lagway injured his calf during a workout in July and has not yet fully returned to be a full participant in Gators practice in […]

Florida football fans started holding their breaths for DJ Lagway. The health of the star Gators quarterback rose as a new concern. But Billy Napier delivered a promising injury update on Lagway’s calf. The dual-threat passer was seen throwing the ball around in Gainesville. Plus took part in various drills. Zach Abolverdi of On3/Rivals dropped […]

With the season opener just a couple of weeks away, there are plenty of questions surrounding the Florida football program. The team’s number 15 ranking in the first AP poll of 2025 has built up the hype around the Gators even more. However, the man at the center of that hype, quarterback DJ Lagway, still […]

Year four of the Billy Napier era is right around the corner for the Florida football program. The Gators are currently in preseason camp, preparing for what could be another daunting season. Following last season’s turnaround, it is certainly clear that this is DJ Lagway’s team. The sophomore signal caller has been dealing with a […]

There is a lot of optimism around Florida football coming into this fall, and star quarterback DJ Lagway is a big reason why. A 2024 season that started with Gators fans calling for head coach Billy Napier’s job ended with Lagway putting on a show as a true freshman, getting fans fired up for his […]

The 2025 college football season is right around the corner, and the Florida football team is coming into it with a lot of momentum after a promising conclusion to its 2024 campaign. A lot of that momentum revolves around quarterback DJ Lagway, who showed a lot of potential as a true freshman. He is expected […]

Ahead of his first full season as Florida’s starting quarterback, DJ Lagway is determined to make considerable improvements during the 2025 college football season. Lagway entered the 2024 season as one of the most-hyped quarterback prospects in Florida football history. He had an up-and-down freshman season, but knows exactly which areas he wants to address […]

SEC media days have dominated headlines this week in college football. The 2025 Florida football team is one of the conference’s biggest wildcards this season. The Gators were inconsistent last season but showed promise due to DJ Lagway running the offense under center. They have much higher expectations this season because of their potential, but […]

Florida football starting quarterback DJ Lagway went full Billie Jean King in response to the lofty expectations. The Gators’ leader under center played a significant role in the 2024 squad’s turnaround after a tumultuous start. Billy Napier was struggling in his third season, losing five out of the first nine games through mid-November. Fortunately, for […]

The Florida football team finished with an 8-5 overall record last season, and while that doesn’t look like anything special on paper, it was a good season for the Gators. Florida has been struggling for a while now, and coming into last season, it didn’t look like the Gators were going to win six games […]

International Women’s Day has a new supporter with Florida football quarterback DJ Lagway. He is giving back in a big way. Through a partnership with the Gators’ NIL collective, Florida Victorious, Lagway is donating NIL dollars to women’s sports, according to On3.com. In a social media post, Lagway detailed why he donated, as well as […]

DJ Lagway is set to take over the Florida quarterback room in 2025 but will have to compete for the starting job. The Gators confirmed that they received a commitment from former Charlotte quarterback Deshawn Purdie through the transfer portal, per CBS Sports’ Matt Zenitz. Despite a promising showing after landing in Gainesville as the […]

Florida football quarterback DJ Lagway is pumped up after his team defeated LSU on Saturday. Lagway says he and head coach Billy Napier are going to work together to change the culture at the school. “That means a lot, man, you know, just being the second year in the offense, you know, is huge,” Lagway […]

Florida football head coach Billy Napier just revealed the status of quarterback DJ Lagway ahead of the LSU game. The talented freshman quarterback has not played since suffering a scary hamstring injury against Georgia on November 2nd. Napier, whose name is off the hot seat for 2024, confirmed to Gainesville Sun reporter Kevin Brockway that […]

Earlier in the season, calls for highly-touted freshman quarterback DJ Lagway to see the field were mostly out of curiosity. The Florida Gators had a returning veteran starter in Graham Mertz, but the promise of Lagway couldn’t be ignored. Not long after Mertz was sidelined with a season-ending knee injury and Lagway had begun to […]

The Florida Gators travel to Austin in Week 11 of the 2024 college football season to take on the No. 5 Texas Longhorns, and this already difficult game seems like it will be even tougher for the visitors after the latest DJ Lagway injury update that suggests it will be Aidan Warner, not Lagway, taking […]

Florida football (4-4) is actually mired in less uncertainty than many fans anticipated heading into a Week 11 meeting with No. 5 Texas. Athletic director Scott Stricklin is reasserting his loyalty to head coach Billy Napier despite two consecutive seasons of stagnancy. The program is more concerned about the short-term questions facing the health of […]

The Florida football program announced its commitment to head coach Billy Napier for beyond the 2024 season, and quarterback DJ Lagway was happy to hear the news, posting on his Instagram story in celebration after the announcement. DJ Lagway approves of Billy Napier being back in 2025 👀 pic.twitter.com/nWNhWXtbX9 — Florida Gators 🐊🔥 (@gatorsszn) November […]

Florida Gators quarterback DJ Lagway is questionable for Saturday’s game against the No. 5-ranked Texas Longhorns, Pete Thamel of ESPN reported on Wednesday. Whether or not both Lagway and Florida football running back Montrell Johnson Jr. will be in action remains to be seen. Lagway, the former Gatorade Player of the Year, suffered a hamstring […]

The Florida football program found some encouraging news from head coach Billy Napier about freshman quarterback, DJ Lagway. “The good news is we have positive information on that front,” Napier said via Graham Hall of 247Sports. “We do think that the injury is less significant, we do think there’s a pathway for recovery and a […]

Florida football quarterback DJ Lagway was carted off in the second quarter of the Gators’ game against their rival Georgia Bulldogs, per On3’s Nick Schultz. After the play, a designed run he took for three yards, Lagway reached for his left hamstring. The entire Florida football team came out to the field in a show […]

The state of Florida is going through a hard time right now as Hurricane Milton has brought a lot of destruction to the state. Milton came shortly after another powerful storm, Hurricane Helene, also barreled through almost the exact same part of the state. Floridians need assistance right now to help clean up and pay […]

Leave it to the ol’ ball coach to stir the Florida football pot. With Graham Mertz still recovering from a concussion, DJ Lagway played and made an impression on Steve Spurrier. His latest quote, via Pat Dooley of ESPN WRUF, about Gators’ true freshman DJ Lagway is sure to have a ripple effect that will […]

Florida football is going through a difficult season, but there does seem to be a silver lining in their dark cloud. Florida’s young quarterback DJ Lagway set a first start school record with 456 passing yards on Saturday against Samford. That impressive statistic made his coach Billy Napier quite happy. “He is what we thought […]

The Florida football team will be starting true freshman five-star quarterback DJ Lagway this weekend when the Gators take on Samford. Graham Mertz got the start last Saturday against Miami, but he is currently in concussion protocol. The Gators didn’t look good in their 41-17 loss to the Hurricanes, and it is now Lagway’s job […]

The USC football team is going to be in a very different spot next year in terms of their quarterback room. This year, the Trojans had maybe the best QB room in the entire country as they had Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams as their starter, and one of their backups was Malachi Nelson, the […]