Florida LS Marco Ortiz Announces Transfer

Florida Gators fifth-year redshirt junior lengthy snapper Marco Ortiz, who entered the NCAA switch portal as a graduate pupil on October 26, introduced his dedication to Nebraska on Sunday night.

Ortiz is the second Florida participant to discover a new program by way of switch for the reason that NCAA’s newly-instituted switch portal window first opened on December 5, following offensive lineman Joshua Braun (Arkansas). 

A local of Richmond, Va., Ortiz joined the Gators as a walk-on member of Florida’s 2018 recruiting class. He made two appearances throughout his first three seasons with the staff previous to then-starting lengthy snapper Brett DioGuardi‘s departure from this system following the 2020 marketing campaign.

Ortiz went on to safe Dioguardi’s position to start the 2021 season and was awarded a scholarship 4 video games into the yr. He held down the beginning position at lengthy snapper till Week 2 of this season, after struggling a season-ending upper-body harm towards Utah in Week 1.

Redshirt freshman and fellow scholarship lengthy snapper Rocco Underwood assumed beginning duties at lengthy snapper in Ortiz’s place and carried out nicely all year long. The Lake Mary (Fla.) Excessive product and cousin of former UF specialists Johnny and Tommy Townsend memorably recovered a muffed punt that led to a second-quarter landing towards LSU in Week 7. 

Underwood is at present the lone scholarship lengthy snapper on Florida’s projected 2023 roster.

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