Daejon Reynolds, former Florida WR, announces transfer destination
Daejon Reynolds is headed to the ACC.
Reynolds announced his commitment to Pittsburgh on Friday evening. He spent the past 2 seasons with the Gators.
Here’s his announcement:
#H2P what’s good! pic.twitter.com/w9FBnIO7zk
— DR (@DaejonReynolds) January 20, 2023
Reynolds redshirted in 2021 and didn’t carve out a significant role in Florida’s offense this past season. He had 1 breakout game vs. Vanderbilt — 8 catches for 165 yards and 2 touchdowns — that made up the vast majority of his overall production in Gainesville.
When Reynolds’ role decreased again after the Vanderbilt game, he opted to enter the transfer portal. He didn’t make a catch in Florida’s final 2 games of the season.
He joins a Pitt program that is losing its top receiver in Jared Wayne to the NFL Draft. However, the Panthers do return 2 of their other top 3 receivers from the 2022 season.
Reynolds will have 3 seasons of eligibility remaining at Pittsburgh.
Another former Mullen recruit landed at another powerhouse program. Why did he get no interest from UGA, Tennessee, Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss, FSU, Clemson, Miami, Ohio State, Michigan, TCU, Oklahoma, Texas, USC, Oregon or Utah…
Good luck to the young man. May he find at Pitt what he didn’t find at UF.
I’d be interested in hearing Mullen’s true thoughts on this mess he left behind and the players that left, how he sees it.
He would probably tell you Stricklin misunderstood his vision for the program and Reynolds would’ve been a star WR in his offense.
But if he appeared in his Darth Vader costume and said in a deep voice, “YOU ARE MY SON, STRICKLIN” …. do you think he might get his job back?
Definitely. If not he’ll use the force on him.
I wouldn’t call Pitt powerhouse. He probably wasn’t all that good to start with.
Pitt a “Powerhouse Program”??
Anyway, best of luck to Reynolds. He showed some flashes at times, but with our QB’s inconsistency who knows.
Sarcastic comment gentlemen. The last time Pitt was a “powerhouse,” Dan Marino was their star QB. Marino’s been an NFL Hall of Famer for quite a few years now.
I got the sarcasm “StL”. I was going to go with Tony Dorsett for my “last time Pitt was a powerhouse”, so i must be a little older than you.
I’m from South Florida. I was a big Dolphins fan back in those days and Marino was my hero.
I too was a fanatical Fins fan back in the 70s and 80s, being from Fort Lauderdale and living there after college. I still have yet to see a faster release than Marino’s.
Couldn’t even tell you who’s on their roster now, except for Tua. Or more then three or four guys, at most, on any other NFL roster.
Nash, you’re right about his quick release. OLs used to love him for that. The Marks, Duper and Clayton, were on the team in ‘82 and nobody knew about them. Marino took over at QB in ‘83 and by ‘84 all three were All Pros.
I had season tickets between ‘72 and ‘75 and was in the OB for the undefeated season and the back-to-back SB wins. Got disillusioned when Heizenga forced Shula to retire early. Gave up on the Fins when Wanstead ran Marino off early. Finally gave up on the NFL entirely when Kaepernick took his knee and owners didn’t stand up to it. Haven’t tuned into one game since.
I remember those days with Marino and the Marks brothers. Come to think of it, similar to the 2020 Trask led Gators with Pitts and those NFL receivers.
If only those teams had a decent defense
You know Cojones, watching Marino play taught me how to quickly discern whether a QB has the mental acuity a true star QB needs to have, alongside the physical gifts that are more obvious and easily acknowledged by the politically correct crowd.
You’re right, Trask did the same thing for Pitts and Toney that Marino did for the Marks, but in today’s media environment, those receivers got all the credit, even though nobody knew who they were before the 4th quarter of the UK game in 2019. I’m curious to see how Trask does at TB, once Brady finally retires.
BTW, Jack Miller displayed that same mental acuity in LV, when he wasn’t running for his life! Curious to see how he does with a full spring and summer to work with the receivers, especially Pearsall.
I’m placing my money on Trask, who has both the history and character to wait his turn even while being ostensibly overlooked. Mental acuity? In spades, deeply and across several dimensions.
Aaron Rodgers waited patiently four years for Favre to retire. I don’t see Trask having any trouble doing the same. His first year as a starter will coincide with his contract renewal year, which is both good and bad.
That said, my only concern about Trask is whether he has the arm strength to zip in 15-yard outs, near the sidelines from the opposite hash marks, without getting picked off. If he succeeds at those, he’s golden. If he doesn’t, he’ll last as long as Danny Wuerffel did in the NFL.
I remember him all too well from the ‘81/‘82 Sugar Bowl. Todd Blackledge creates no warm fuzzies for me either. Pennsylvania schools were Dooley’s bane in the early ‘80s.
“Pennsylvania schools were Dooley’s bane in the early ‘80s.”
Dooley wasn’t the only SEC coach to have those problem Mountain. That’s because those programs had potent passing games to go with their running games and those two QBs went in the 1st round in the ‘83 NFL draft, which gave others some ideas.
There was a former Gator QB coordinating Duke’s offense in ‘81-‘82, who took note of the difficulties SEC powers were having dealing with wide open passing attacks back then. He fleshed out some concepts he got over a three year stint as HBC of the Tampa Bay Bandits and those concepts became the Fun-N-Gun offense, which he perfected as HBC at Duke and brought over to his alma mater in 1990.
To say Spurrier became “the bane” of all other SEC coaches by using that offense almost exclusively over the next decade is a monumental understatement!
The Ol’ Ball Coach definitely changed the game. I just wish he’d stayed in Durham to do it.
82/83. Know it too well. Painful endings. So close.
I read once that a literal handful of plays going differently between ‘81 (Clemson) and ‘82 (Penn State) might have given Dooley 3 straight natties. But then again, 1 play going differently in ‘80 (Florida) and no natty at all.
Nine turnovers in the Clemson game. Got to be a never done before or never again record.
That the Dawgs managed to stay in that game after turning it over nine times is a real complement to their defense back then.
Belue was intercepted 5 times. You’d think Vince would have taken the ball out of hands after two. But then again, Herschel fumbled it away twice.
Nine freakin’ turnovers, yet Clemson only scored 13 points. I remember I was at work that day, listening to the game on radio intermittently. Seemed every time I had a second to try and catch up on the what was happening, Munson was moaning about another TO. Unbelievable.
LOL…they didn’t get you bro.
Lol they only run the ball.