{"id":26859,"date":"2019-12-18T07:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/?p=26859"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:05:47","slug":"dt-gervon-dexter-signs-with-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2019\/12\/18\/dt-gervon-dexter-signs-with-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"DT Gervon Dexter Signs With Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mullen and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/2019\/11\/21\/florida-gators-2020-mock-recruiting-class-2-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Gators<\/a> coaching staff have signed their top-ranked commit. Four-star defensive tackle <strong>Gervon Dexter<\/strong> has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a huge signing for Florida as Dexter has the potential to be an elite college football player in the future. Mullen loves Dexter\u2019s skill set as he\u2019s a perfect fit and can make a big impact on the Florida defense. Dexter is one of four defensive tackles to sign with the Gators with <strong>Lamar Goods<\/strong>, <strong>Jalen Lee,<\/strong> and <strong>Johnnie Brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Who is Gervon Dexter?<\/h3>\n<p>Dexter is a four-star defensive tackle out of Lakes Wales High School in Lakes Wales, Florida. He is considered one of the top defensive recruits in the country. He was a huge get for the Gators as he was committed for over a year and was recruited by most top schools. Dexter signed with Florida over Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Miami, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>On 247 Sports, Dexter is the 25<sup>th<\/sup> ranked recruit and the third-ranked defensive end in the country. On ESPN, Dexter is the 43<sup>rd<\/sup> ranked recruit and the fifth-ranked defensive tackle in the country. The Gators have added a top defensive lineman who could really make an impact in the future. Dexter will play in the Under Armour All-American Game. Dexter will enroll at Florida after the school year and he could get some immediate playing time as a freshman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators coaching staff have signed their top-ranked commit. Four-star defensive tackle Gervon Dexter has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a huge signing for Florida as Dexter has the potential to be an elite college football player in the future. Mullen loves Dexter\u2019s skill set as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"featured_media":19167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[79,1197,244,2999,5774,126,3026,20],"class_list":["post-26859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sec","tag-college-football","tag-dan-mullen","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-gators-recruiting","tag-gervon-dexter","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaaf","tag-sec"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77742,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859\/revisions\/77742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}