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Florida football recruiting: Former Gators commit Deontai Williams commits as JUCO safety

For the second time in three years, Deontai Williams has committed to the Florida Gators.

That’s the news of this Monday morning, as Williams committed via tweet...

...with a host of outlets confirming the news about a half-hour later, led by Gator Country’s Andrew Spivey. Jim McElwain’s Twitter account also confirmed the commitment with the customary #ChompChomp tweet.

It’s a long, strange trip back to the fold for Williams, who first became a Florida commit in January 2014, as a junior at Trinity Christian Academy in Jacksonville. Williams became Florida’s only 2015 commit when he committed — though he was not the first, as Da’Vante Phillips, Dalvin Cook’s half brother, had already committed to Florida in the summer of 2013 and decommitted from the Gators before him — and was thought of as the first piece of a constellation of stars from Trinity Christian in the 2015 recruiting class who could end up as Gators.