Rick Wells’ college career is a classic story of perseverance, loyalty and, eventually, triumph.
The wide receiver from Jacksonville was one of Jim McElwain’s first commits at Florida, but his career couldn’t have gotten off to much worse of a start.
He didn’t play at all in either 2016 or 2017. He was involved in a couple of off-the-field incidents, one of which got him suspended for the entire 2017 season.
It would’ve been very easy for Wells to have transferred after McElwain was fired following the 2017 season. His career was going absolutely nowhere, and new coach Dan Mullen brought in a pair of transfers in Van Jefferson and Trevon Grimes to infuse talent into the receiving corps.