If Florida football gets it going, this guy will be a big reason why

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It’s not every day you meet a ghost. But there he was, casually leaning a wall after a Florida spring football practice.

Eugene Wilson III, better known as “Trey.”

He’s not really an apparition, though you’d have a hard time convincing defensive players of that. Wilson frequently vanished right in front of them last season, leaving them tackling nothing but air.

Now a sophomore, he is allowed to do interviews. So when Wilson appeared in the flesh, there was one question I’d been dying to ask.

How do you make yourself disappear?

“There’s not really much to it,” Wilson said. “Just instinct and reaction.”

A good magician never gives away his secrets, but apparently there is no method to Wilson’s madness. He just gets the ball and lets his football nature take its course.

Whatever makes him so elusive, Wilson has quickly become Florida’s not-so-secret weapon. There’s a lot of uncertainty heading into Billy Napier’s third season, but one thing seems obvious.

“Just get the ball in my hands,” Wilson said. “You’ll have a better chance for the team to win.”

He’s not boasting. It took about 3.3 seconds for Florida to realize it had something special in a freshman from Tampa.

Sore hamstrings slowed Wilson the first few practices. Then, as Napier put it, Wilson “really cut it loose for the first time…. I think he’ll make our team better.”

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Uh, yeah. Wilson caught a couple of passes in his first game at Utah. He was a starter by Game 2. And in Game 3 against Tennessee and caught six passes – in the opening drive.

From there, Wilson never had fewer than six receptions in a game until the finale against…

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Author : The Gainesville Sun

Publish date : 2024-03-25 08:03:00

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