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Texas is looking hard at this guy. CFB-HQ On SI 17.7K Followers Top 5 transfer portal landing spots for Florida EDGE Jayden WoodsStory by Ryan Young • 1d • 4 min rea Florida EDGE Jayden Woods is in the transfer portal and looking for a new team. | Petre Thomas-Imagn Images Jayden Woods was a big recruiting win for Florida a year ago, rated a four-star top-100 national prospect by 247Sports, and the 6-foot-3, 248-pound EDGE had some flash moments for the Gators as a true freshman, but he's now expected to look for a new school and program while hopping in the transfer portal. On3 slots him No. 18 overall and No. 4 among EDGEs in its ranking of all the players who have entered or declared intentions to enter the transfer portal, meaning there should be a lengthy list of interested suitors as the portal officially opened Friday and teams can begin calling transfer targets. Woods, who is from Shawnee, Kansas, had 5 tackles for loss and tied for the team lead with 3.5 sacks, becoming the first Florida true freshman to lead or co-lead the Gators in sacks since 1992. He also tallied 27 tackles, an interception and a forced fumble while playing in all 12 games and drawing two starts. He played well in the big games as his sacks came against Miami, Texas, and top rivals Tennessee and Florida State. His best game was against the Vols, as he notched 8 tackles along with the sack and a forced fumble that he also recovered. While On3 and 247 both reported this week that Woods would enter the transfer portal, Florida wasn't giving up on trying to keep him in Gainesville. If Woods does follow through on plans to transfer, though, here are five potential landings spots for him. Florida Gators defensive lineman Jayden Woods (15) tackles Florida State Seminoles running back Ousmane Kromah (32) | Matt Pendleton-Imagn Images© Matt Pendleton-Imagn Images 1. Tennessee VolunteersWoods took an unofficial visit and an official visit to Tennessee leading into his senior high school season, and included the Vols in his top 5 schools list along with Florida, Purdue, Wisconsin, and Penn State. Woods committed to Penn State that summer before flipping in late November to Florida, which makes the Vols even more interesting here as they recently hired former Nittany Lions defensive coordinator Jim Knowles for the same position. So, Woods liked Tennessee enough to visit multiple times and include it in his top schools list. He liked Knowles' Penn State defense enough to commit there initially. Knowles is now at Tennessee, and Woods' best game of his freshman season came against the Vols. See the dots we're connecting here? 2. Texas LonghornsOrangeBloods.com is reporting that Woods is a specific transfer target of interest for Texas, and that site is the go-to source for inside intel on the Longhorns, so we trust there's some real fire behind that smoke. Texas just made a splash hire in switching defensive coordinators and bringing in Will Muschamp, who has spent the last handful of years at Georgia in a variety of roles and has a deep resume of high-level success calling defenses. If Woods wants to stay in the SEC, be coached by an elite DC and have a chance to compete for a national championship next year, Texas makes a lot of sense.
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