Greg Knox: If you can’t block, you won’t play

Running backs coach Greg Knox shouts instructions during 2021 fall camp. UAA Communications photo by Courtney Culbreath.The Gators have added a trio of highly rated running back recruits over the last three offseasons. They signed Nay’Quan Wright out of high school in 2019, while former five-star prospects Lorenzo Lingard and Demarkcus Bowman transferred in from Miami and Clemson, respectively, over the past two winters.

All three of them enrolled at UF with differing degrees of high expectations placed on them by the outside world. Two of them failed to live up to those expectations in their first years as Gators. Wright played in just three games, carried the ball 12 times and redshirted.…