Orlando Sentinel

Feleipe Franks

- By Edgar Thompson

said he isn’t worried if the Gators make him their starting quarterbac­k — as long as the team wins.

GAINESVILL­E — Last season Feleipe Franks wanted it all. Now UF’s redshirt sophomore quarterbac­k said he just wants to win.

If that is with Franks under center for the Gators, all the better. If not, the 20-year-old said he will accept he did not win the starting job.

What Franks cannot abide is another losing season like 2017’s 4-7 fiasco.

“The mindset last year was more of, ‘I’m wanting to win, I’m wanting to win.’ But at the same time, I want individual goals,” Franks said Tuesday. “One thing I reflected on is I’ve got to get better at — and I got better at it — is being more of a team player, wanting our team to do good.

“You guys are asking me if I’m worried about starting. It doesn’t really matter. It’s more about I want our team to win. I don’t want to go through a 4-7 season again.”

Franks said his focus on improving each day is so razorsharp he insists he has not given even a passing thought to whether he beats out Kyle Trask to be QB1 for the Gators.

“It’s not typical at all,” Franks admitted when pressed by reporters. “Your typical thing is to be worried about it. Stressing about it. At the same thing, if I’m stressing about that, thinking about that, I’m thinking about the play that

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