The Florida Gators held their annual Orange and Blue spring game on Saturday and the coaching staff had several top prospects on campus to watch the game and interact with the staff.\n<\/p>\n
Running back Tranard Roberts (5-11, 195, The Villages, FL. Charter) was on campus and he liked the running game as official visits are looming.\n<\/p>\n
I like the way they pound the rock,\u201d Roberts said on what stood out during the Spring game. \u201cNew staff, honestly, I\u2019m just waiting to see how they do during the season, just waiting everything out. Official visits coming up, that\u2019s when I will pretty much make my decision.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Roberts has long been a top target for the Gators and he says he plans to spend more time around running backs coach Chris Foster this weekend.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cMe and Coach [Chris] Foster will be together later,\u201d he said on the message from the coaching staff. \u201cThe bond is still there, and we\u2019ve been getting things right. It\u2019s been good, I came to spring practice and I got to go to the meetings and all that stuff like that. I think the new staff is better than the last one.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The running back had the Gators as his leader last year under the old staff but he says the new staff brings a different energy to the building.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new staff comes with more intensity,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cThat\u2019s one thing I can say that\u2019s different from the last one. The new staff comes with more intensity and the last one was more laid back. They\u2019ll tell you what they want from you or you\u2019ll tell them what you want from them. This new staff, they\u2019re going to tell you what it is and put it all down on the table.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Roberts liked the offense that offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner and his staff showed on Saturday as the running back believes he fits that style of running.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly the run concept,\u201d he said on what he liked about the offense. \u201cThey did a power inside run and all that stuff and the routes that they have the running backs doing, that\u2019s the type of running back I am. I want to do a lot of things.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Roberts didn\u2019t have the Gators in his top five but he says Florida has moved back into that group now.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were number one back then,\u201d Roberts said on Florida last year. \u201cBut now if I\u2019m being honest, if I had number one then I\u2019d be committed right now. So, I\u2019m just leave it at pretty much my top five but Florida is definitely in the top five. My top five is, USC, Michigan, Florida, Ohio State, and Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Gators held their annual Orange and Blue spring game on Saturday and the coaching staff had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-864968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116392820973375531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}