How Jalon Jones’s departure affects Florida’s quarterback pipeline

Florida Gators QB commit Jalon Jones does the chomp after FNL- GatorCountry photo taken by Andrew SpiveyYesterday brought the unusual news that early enrollee quarterback Jalon Jones is going to transfer away from Florida. Gator Country’s Nick de la Torre reported that it was a mutual decision between him and the coaching staff, and that’s all any media outlet is saying publicly on the matter at time of this writing.

While I can’t give you any more information on why Jones is leaving, I can tell you what it means for the program going forward.

For starters, it changes basically nothing for the 2019 season. Jones was more likely to take an old school redshirt by not appearing in any games than…