Florida football portal rebuild 2026

One-line summary: Official 2026 newcomer math is portal-heavy — 29 transfers vs 20 high-school and 1 JUCO — after a January window Sumrall inherited mid-hire.

The insight

SCOPE treats the portal as a recruiting substitute or complement. The official 4 February 2026 release is the primary inbound list. Outbound is thin in the seed source: dj-lagway (official 15 Dec 2025) and RB KD Daniels (On3 via Carter). Do not invent a 30-plus out list from unfetched trackers.

Evidence

• From 2026-08-21-autoresearch-florida-gators-football-recruiting: “50 newcomers… 29 transfers, 20 high-school recruits, and one junior-college recruit.”
• From 2026-08-21-autoresearch-florida-gators-football-recruiting: portal window on the signing-day and Lagway pages — 2–16 January.
• From 2026-08-21-autoresearch-florida-gators-football-recruiting: official inbound names include Aaron Philo (QB, Georgia Tech), Eric Singleton Jr. (WR, Georgia Tech / Auburn), Evan Pryor (RB, Ohio State / Cincinnati), Emmanuel Oyebadejo (DL, Jacksonville State), plus the OL/TE/specialists table in the source.
• From 2026-08-21-autoresearch-florida-gators-football-recruiting: AP on dave-caldwell — expected to “help manage Florida’s salary cap and evaluate talent.”

Open questions

• Complete official 2026 outgoing list.
• How portal dollars sit inside the $50 million football+hoops On3 lede — see what-is-floridas-football-only-nil-rev-share.

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