{"id":435339,"date":"2024-11-13T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T17:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=435339"},"modified":"2024-11-13T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T17:18:43","slug":"billy-napier-provides-midweek-update-on-qb-dj-lagway-ahead-of-lsu-game","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/florida-football\/billy-napier-provides-midweek-update-on-qb-dj-lagway-ahead-of-lsu-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Napier provides midweek update on QB DJ Lagway ahead of LSU game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Napier provided an update on Florida&#8217;s star quarterback DJ Lagway (hamstring) on Wednesday ahead of the weekend&#8217;s matchup against No. 21 LSU. It wasn&#8217;t exactly a descriptive one.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterback was held out of the team&#8217;s latest matchup against the Texas Longhorns, which Florida lost, 49-17. It sounded like Lagway was close to being back based on the way Napier spoke about the quarterback during Wednesday&#8217;s SEC coaches teleconference preceding the game against Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DJ (Lagway) continues to improve,&#8221; Napier said when asked about the progress Lagway has made. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen progress every day. We continue to trend in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Florida coach Billy Napier on injured QB DJ Lagway: DJ continues to improve. We&#39;ve seen progress every day. We continue to trend in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Rabalais (@RabalaisAdv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RabalaisAdv\/status\/1856734894644211848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he&#8217;s trying,\u201d Napier said at the time. &#8220;He wants to try to find a pathway to make this work. It&#8217;s touch and go. Look, the guy\u2019s giving it his best shot. We&#8217;ll see where we&#8217;re at in the league. There&#8217;s no secret to it anymore. You guys will have a good idea where we\u2019re at when we approach kickoff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florida and LSU are set to kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET in The Swamp on Saturday. The Tigers come off of an embarrassing loss of their own after they fell 42-13 to No. 9-ranked Alabama, essentially ruining any chances they had left of making it into the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n<p>With a vote of confidence recently placed in Napier by athletic director Scott Stricklin, it will be interesting to watch how he makes the most of an opportunity against a shaky LSU team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Napier provided an update on star quarterback DJ Lagway ahead of the weekend&#8217;s matchup against No. 21 LSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364585,"featured_media":433920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[3137,6706,3970],"class_list":["post-435339","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-billy-napier","tag-dj-lagway","tag-florida-gators","article_types-news","teams-florida-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/435339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}