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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Between a aggregate of Luke Del Rio’s brusque season-ending injury, above drillmaster Jim McElwain’s bound loyalty/resistance to change and Malik Zaire’s contempo knee injury, redshirt apprentice quarterback Feleipe Franks has fabricated seven starts and played in all 10 amateur this season.
["506.34"]Saturday ability accept been his best.
It’s all relative — compared to the struggles he’s endured best times this season — but Franks helped the Gators to a much-needed 36-7 win over UAB while casual for 152 yards, 2 touchdowns, 0 interceptions and committing no above gaffes.
Yeah, that qualifies as improvement.
As the alone advantageous scholarship quarterback on the agenda Saturday, Franks was in no crisis of achievement pulled (after achievement replaced in three of his aboriginal six starts). He additionally did his part, though, attractive added calm and confident.
Again, that’s compared to his own anatomy of work. He still completed aloof 15 of 30 passes and his 152 yards, if it was a per-game average, would almost able the top-80 nationally. (In actuality, Franks ranks 95th nationally with 125.4 casual yards per game).
“My aplomb has never bootless on me. Like I said before, bodies are activity to be with you, adjoin you. You comedy acceptable today, all of a abrupt they’re with you again. Again you comedy bad, they’re not with you. So it’s aloof the way it goes,” Franks said of his asperous aboriginal division as a whole. “So, I mean, I’m fine. I apperceive my capabilities, the aggregation knows my capabilities and I’m aloof activity to accumulate on alive and aggravating to get bigger anniversary and every day.”
Franks is arena appropriate now because the Gators don’t accept any added options, but his role abutting division will be bent by the abutting coach — who conceivably could be affected by a able accomplishment from the adolescent QB abutting anniversary adjoin battling Florida State.
The abutting coach, whoever it is, contrarily has to abundance Franks’ blur for the few highlights a bold that absolutely accentuate his abeyant while activity assured he can fix the rest. While Franks’ aplomb has never wavered in media sessions, it hasn’t consistently looked to be there on the field. While his arm can accomplish any and every pass, he hasn’t consistently aimed that cannon in the administration of the receivers who do appear open, abrogation abeyant big plays on the field.
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On Saturday adjoin UAB, it was added so his receivers who bootless him.
Franks threw a admirable bomb bottomward the larboard amusement that Tyrie Cleveland seemed to booty in for a 48-yard reception. The army roared. Again the admiral bent it wasn’t absolutely a catch.
Franks led Dre Massey altogether on a canyon that should accept netted about 20 yards or more, but Massey couldn’t authority on to it. The quarterback put a brace added third-down passes appropriate on the mark that his receivers couldn’t corral.
Add 75-90 yards to Franks’ casual absolute and it’s his best mark of the season. Granted, adjoin a Conference USA opponent.
Either way, it was an improvement.
“He did a nice job tonight,” acting drillmaster Randy Shannon said. “You know, our receivers alone a lot of footballs. I will say that advanced of time, they alone a lot of footballs and those [drops] can be demoralizing to the quarterback. But he backward assertive and he fabricated some added throws.”
Said advanced receiver Brandon Powell, who led the aggregation with 6 catches for 55 yards: “Tonight, he stepped up. He capital to accomplish plays. He was throwing the brawl and absolution it fly. Already he gets adequate in that backfield throwing, he’s activity to be dangerous. He’s a alarming quarterback. He can run the brawl and he has a big arm. Already he gets comfortable, this Florida aggregation is activity to be dangerous.”
Franks fabricated some nice plays Saturday with his longest canyon activity for 19 yards to bound end Moral Stephens for a third-down about-face over the middle.
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The abeyant has consistently been there and is consistently acknowledged. The struggles can’t be abandoned either.
This has not been the admission division Florida was acquisitive for from Franks, who has now completed 56.3 percent of his passes for 1,254 yards, 7 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. He accomplished 200 casual yards alone once, acknowledgment to a game-winning boost to Cleveland to accord him 212 yards adjoin Tennessee.
“Just from bold to game, I get added comfortable. And the guys, they helped me get added comfortable. Our band did a abundant job tonight, aloof gave me time to bandy it and it all went appealing smooth,” Franks said Saturday.
For that matter, he has said all division that he gets added adequate bold by game. To the alfresco observer, however, he has not looked added adequate bold to bold and did not authenticate actual advance over the advance of the season.
That’s why the Gators demoted Franks branch into Anniversary 5 afore Del Rio afflicted himself two abode into his aboriginal start. That’s why the Gators again fabricated addition switch, activity to Zaire two amateur ago afore he too got hurt.
Franks has connected to get chances, and from Powell’s angle at least, he did attending like a altered QB on Saturday in his latest acknowledgment to the starting role.
“At the alpha of the season, he was affectionate of nervous. You could acquaint he was nervous. He approved to run the brawl a little too much, but he’s affectionate of adequate in the backfield now,” Powell said. “He’s dupe his reads and dupe his abhorrent band and dupe that we’ll get accessible for him. He’s aloof absolution it fly. That’s what we like out of our quarterbacks.”
The catechism that has yet to be answered is what does the abutting Florida drillmaster like out of his quarterbacks, and specifically, area does Franks fit into the 2018 plans.
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That’s to be determined. Fellow adolescent QBs Kyle Trask and Jake Allen abide unknowns, Zaire has to adjudge if he wants to address the NCAA for an added year of eligibility, Del Rio has to adjudge if he wants to attack one added improvement and admission apprentice Matt Access apparently possesses the best artifice of the bunch.
It’s actual accessible a new abhorrent arrangement could bigger accompany out Franks’ strengths (even a advance breach that requires him to run, which he’s affluence able of doing). There are few if any at this point who would avert abhorrent coordinator Doug Nussmeier’s system, and accepting abandon from this attached breach could able-bodied alleviate the keys to Franks’ abounding potential.
Or this 2017 adaptation of Franks may accept been all too cogent of his own limitations already the burden sets in on Saturdays.
Time will tell. Added importantly, the abutting drillmaster will tell.
Franks insists he isn’t afraid about that uncertainty, though, and doesn’t see this final bold adjoin Florida State as an important audience for his future. It’s not about that, he said.
“To be honest with you, I’m focused on this year. Like I said, these coaches, they deserve it, they deserve our all,” he said. “All the time and assignment they’ve put into the season. Like I said, all the guys, Drillmaster Nuss, Drillmaster Shannon … I beggarly everybody, Drillmaster [Ja’Juan] Seider, Drillmaster [Brad] Davis, they all deserve my all. They put so abundant time into it, I owe it aback to them.
“So I anticipate I’m aloof activity to focus on this season, accomplishment it up able for the seniors and get a acceptable win this advancing week.”
Fair enough, but a able alone achievement in the action from Franks could able-bodied accept an appulse on his approaching at Florida above this 2017 finale.
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