GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida will be wanting to bounce back from a 6-7 year in 2021 that ultimately noticed mentor Dan Mullen fired, and numerous Gators mentioned this spring that they’re working with a bit of a chip on their shoulder.

For running again Lorenzo Lingard, there is certainly far more than just a chip.

On Thursday, Lingard posted a online video of him pulling a Toyota truck with a pair of straps off the entrance bumper, seemingly locked in in close proximity to his elbows as he tugged. He posted the online video with the caption “We acquired bored immediately after leg day” as a several teammates looked on.

1 stood in the bed of the truck even though another appeared on from the driver’s facet of the motor vehicle.


We obtained bored soon after leg working day ?? pic.twitter.com/MKSVJqsac4

— Lorenzo Lingard JR (@d1champ99) Might 12, 2022



Lingard, who has turn out to be a popular existence on social media as he’s embraced several public appearances via his NIL offer with the Gator Collective, is a former 5-star prospect who transferred in from Miami immediately after the 2019 period.

In two several years at Florida he is logged just 16 carries for 75 yards, although introducing a single catch for nine yards.

Both he and fellow five-star prospect Demarkcus Bowman (a Clemson transfer) have patiently waited their shot after watching veterans Dameon Pierce, Malik Davis and Nay’Quan Wright acquire the lion’s share of the carries in the UF backfield the past couple several years.

That trio was rotated heavily last calendar year, typically in means that appeared detrimental to using the “scorching hand.”

“None of us actually did (like the rotation). But those people fellas finished up staying healthful,” Lingard said on a current episode of the Gettin Swamped podcast with David Soderquist. “With the technique now, we get about 15, nearly 20 carries. As considerably as yards, they raise. Our function is even larger.

“That full rotation was sort of bizarre mainly because a male would receive their run down the discipline then get taken out. But right here, I signify, mainly with this staff members they don’t do that.”

Lingard had an superb spring and was pushing to be the major back again in the group, battling Louisiana transfer Montrell Johnson for that honor.

However, Lingard pulled up with a tweaked hamstring in the team’s yearly spring activity, so he was not completely capable to present the admirers what he could do. But men and women all-around Lingard and Bowman have raved about their function ethic.

Plainly Lingard is just not hesitant to put in the do the job physically.

“I’m very pleased of those fellas,” Wright claimed this spring. “Just observing those men arrive in, each working day, put they head down and work. I have observed people men arrive in, the two of them, when they initial came in and viewing them now, a pair a long time go by, I’m happy of all those guys.

“People fellas clearly show up each day and you would not have imagined that they hadn’t played in two yrs. Both of those of those guys were being remarkably recruited coming out of substantial college. Hats off to those fellas they are excellent teammates, I appreciate be all-around them. They are funny. They are competitive. Individuals men are heading to do it this year.”