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No. 17 Florida could have QB Aaron Philo back for SEC game against No. 3 Georgia · Best of: Features

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  No. 17 Florida could have quarterback Aaron Filo back for SEC game
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  against No. 3 Georgia. This article is being
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  read by an automated voice generated by Everlet. Gainesville, Florida, the AP.
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  Number seventeen Florida could have quarterback Aaron Philo back, for Saturday's game
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  against third ranked Georgia in Atlanta. Philo, who sat out a victory
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  at then number seven, Texas, on october seventeenth, because of an injured
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  throwing shoulder, practiced Monday and split first team repetitions with backup Tremel
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  Jones Jr. Coach John Sumrall said. He will wait to see how
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  both QBs gets through the first few days of practice this week
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  before making a decision, done he might not announce publicly. It starts
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  with health and availability, Sumeral said. If
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  a guy not available, then my decision gets made really easy. You
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  don't throw out then full body of work with what they've done
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  going back to January, but you also take into account most recent
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  activities. You wait. If one guy goes out all week and practices
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  really good and the other guy doesn't, then that'll tell me something.
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  But it's who can function, who can operate, who can made the
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  throws, who can get us in and out of things, all those
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  things. How they go through the week matters. Philo injured his right
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  shoulder while getting tackled late in a home loss to South Carolina
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  on october tenth. He made the trip to Austin, Texas, and served
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  as the team's emergency quarterback behind Jones and Aidan Warner. Jones became
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  the first Florida quarterback since Jesse Palmer in nineteen ninety seven to
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  win his first career start on the road against a top ten
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  team. Jones completed twenty two of thirty five passes for one hundred
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  and fifty five yards, with two touchdowns and no interceptions. He also
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  ran ten times for forty one yards, none bigger than a third
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  and seven keeper, in which he picked up a first down that
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  allowed the Gators, five and two, three and two Southeastern Conference, to
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  kneel out the clock. I've said the whole time I think we
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  can win with either guy, Samral said. Jones, like Philo, is expected
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  to land on the injury report Wednesday night. Although Sumerl declined to
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  provide specifics, he said Jones has been dealing with a couple of
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  bumps and bruises since beating the Longhorns. We pulled the guy fresh
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  out of that garage, and he goes and plays. And he got
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  a couple fender benders, Sumeral said. So there's some bumps and bruises
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  he's dealing with that are new. I noticed it last week. I'm
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  like, Are you all right? And he's like, Yeah, I got this
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  going on and don't feel great here. Welcome to SEC football. Whoever
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  starts for Florida is expected to have speedy receiver Vernel Brown three
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  back for the first time in more than a month. Brown missed
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  the last three games while recovering from a sprained right knee, which
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  he hurt in a home win against then number four Ole Miss
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  on september twenty sixth. Some Rawl called it the lotus grade strain
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  you could get, but Brown didn't feel close enough to one hundred
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  percent to play, missing games against Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas. He
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  has seventeen catches for two hundred and seventy one yards and two
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  touchdowns. He also has returned five punts for one hundred and seventy
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  three yards and two scores. VB looks really good. Practiced last week.
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  Practiced Monday, Sumbral said. He looks normal to me. He looked like
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  he was feeling pretty good. Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts
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