GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida opened spring practice on Tuesday, and GatorBait.net provides a full recap of everything that happened in the portions of practice open to the media.

Quarterbacks Generally Crisp in Debut

As expected, Feleipe Franks took the first snaps with the starters in Tuesday's practice, earning all of the first-team reps in the team's fastball segment, a period of practice with four scripted plays run at a quick tempo.

Franks was sharp in that segment, hitting Antonio Callaway on a well-timed slant after finding C'yontai Lewis on a quick out. Franks then struck paydirt on the fourth and final play of fastball when Tyrie Cleveland got behind Duke Dawson on a route to the sidelines and Franks lofted a perfect pass over the coverage to find him for the touchdown.

Kyle Trask ran with the second-team unit in fastball, which was on the far side of the field (GatorBait.net focused on the starters on Tuesday).

After fastball, the quarterbacks progressed to the routes on air portion of practice. The drill began very well, with the two redshirt freshman quarterbacks on the money through the first 40 or so reps in the drill. Those passes were on quick digs and slants, pretty basic routes.

The out routes seemed to give the quarterbacks a bit more trouble, with Franks sailing two of his well high of his intended target. That was his fairly consistent miss on throws last year, along with the corner route. Trask was a bit more capable on those throws against air, while freshman Kadarius Toney's accuracy was a little more erratic overall. Toney missed one slant altogether and threw another behind a receiver who then made a nice adjustment for the catch. Toney also sailed a corner route out of bounds.

In pass skeleton work, Franks missed a corner route intended for Brandon Powell out of bounds but completed two short routes and had a walk-on drop a third.

Toney was second up in pass skeleton work, completing three short passes before Kalif Jackson dropped an out that hit him in the chest. Toney did miss one out long and high and then was picked off by C.J. McWilliams on a tipped pass.

Trask was the final quarterback up in pass skeleton and had two quick completions before a very impressive throw on a corner route. Trask's throw hit his receiver in stride, but the walk-on receiver dropped the pass. Trask hit an out route before overthrowing a corner route and then missing behind Moral Stephens over the middle, but Stephens made a terrific adjustment for the catch.

For a first day, it was a relatively clean effort from the quarterbacks with only the typical handful of errant throws.

Clear Difference From Year 1 to Year 3

One thing that immediately stood out at Tuesday's practice was just how comfortable Florida has gotten with managing Jim McElwain's tempo at practice.

From the very outset on Tuesday, it was clear the Gators were juiced up for the practice, with the leaders of the Swamp Jacks making sure to urge their teammates for louder "HELL YEAH!" responses several times to their chant of "Gators, are you ready?!?"

The practice moved along at a great clip, with everyone quick to their spots as drills changed and the coaches not having to restart anything that we saw on Tuesday.

That's a stark contrast from two years ago, when it seemed that every drill began at least once over after lollygagging or just general lack of interest or hustle.

The Starters in Tuesday's Fastball Period

OFFENSE

QB Feliepe Franks

RB Jordan Scarlett

WR Antonio Callaway

WR Tyrie Cleveland

TE DeAndre Goolsby

TE C'yontai Lewis

LT Martez Ivey

LG Tyler Jordan

C T.J. McCoy

RG Fredrick Johnson

RT Jawaan Taylor

DEFENSE

SDE CeCe Jefferson

DT Taven Bryan

NT Khairi Clark

WDE Keivonnis Davis

SLB Vosean Joseph

MLB Cristian Garcia

WLB Kylan Johnson

CB Chauncey Gardner

S Nick Washington

S Marcell Harris

CB Duke Dawson

Other Notes

-- Redshirt freshman offensive lineman Brett Heggie still appears to be one of the most physically imposing linemen from a stature standpoint. He's a massive individual.

-- Defensive tackle Luke Ancrum still appears far too light to really play major minutes inside. It's easy to wonder at this point if he'll ever add the size Florida's coaches thought he might when they slotted him at nose tackle.

-- The scholarship receivers were very effective in Tuesday's work catching the ball, though Cleveland did have one drop on a pass he turned to run with before he had secured. However, one thing that stands out is the lack of depth at receiver. There just aren't many scholarship receivers out there this fall (Cleveland, Callaway, Brandon Powell, Joshua Hammond).

-- Walk-on middle linebacker Cristian Garcia was praised by the defensive coaches for playing one route combo in pass skeleton work excellently. He helped force a checkdown that Vosean Joseph was able to break up.

-- We didn't see a whole lot of the new coaches today, but Brad Davis was pretty vociferous about getting the linemen to their spot quickly and alternating back and forth between two groups as quickly as possible to maximize reps. The energy he brings was easy to spot.

-- Receiver Rick Wells (leg), linebacker Jeremiah Moon (sick) and offensive lineman Kavaris Harkless (leg) all missed Tuesday's practice due to injury.