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Florida football recruiting: Four-star running back Robert Washington pledges to Gators ... sort of

After more than a month of relative quiet on the recruiting trail, Florida landed its ninth commitment of the 2016 cycle on Saturday, as four-star running back Robert Washington, of Huntersville, North Carolina, surprised many by picking the Gators, announcing the commitment in a taped interview with Bleacher Report.

His 247Sports profile reports Washington holds 43 offers, and some of them are quite good, but almost every expert predicting Washington's college choice was wrong:

The lone pick for Florida among 24 experts' projections came from Bleacher Report's Tyler Donohue — who made the pick on Friday.