Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators football program received some good news in the form of a five-star defensive tackle in the 2022 recruiting class on Friday.
Five-star defensive tackle Walter Nolen made an update to his recruitment, cutting his list of 25 offers down to his Top eight. Those eight schools that made the list including UF are Oregon, Ohio State, LSU, Alabama, Michigan, Georgia, and Southern California.
Nolen is ranked as the No. 2 overall recruit in the 2022 recruiting class, the No. 1 defensive tackle and the No. 1 player in the state of Tennessee per the 247Sports recruiting rankings. He’s a big time recruit that could be a program-changer on defense.
Honored to say tht I have cut my list down to 8 recruitment is still wide open @Rivals @ChadSimmons_ @ESPN3ALLDAY @HamiltonESPN pic.twitter.com/hhXdl3FhoY
— Walter Nolen9️⃣🏈🏈 (@WalterNolen4) April 2, 2021
While the Gators made the top eight for Nolen, there’s also more good news as the recruit has officially scheduled a visit to Gainesville for the weekend of June 4-6. He dished on his recruitment and revealed why he included Florida in his top eight via All Gators:
“When I was at IMG, I feel like that helped better our relationship and me being able to talk to them and them just being 2-3 hours away. It was just a good chance, so being a college town, they are one of the biggest college towns you can think of, so that helps them.
Eventually, when you get to college, you have to think about, you are going to share reps with the best because everybody is there for a reason, and you have to take that into consideration and get every opportunity you can. I feel like with Florida’s offense getting off the field a lot it gives a chance for their defensive linemen to get more reps.”
The good news is that he is familiar with Florida and had positives to say about the program above. However, the Gators are facing TOUGH competition with Alabama, Georgia, and LSU involved.
Let’s hope the Gators can impress him enough on his visit weekend.