GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- With only a bowl game remaining in the 2015 season, many Florida fans have turned their focus to the future and what that holds for the Gators.

Jim McElwain and his staff have hit the recruiting trail hard, trying to shore up a number of positions on the depth chart. Not the least of those is quarterback, where Florida currently boasts two commitments and continues to recruit five-star prospect Jacob Eason and four-star recruit Dwayne Haskins.

But perhaps the biggest question on the quarterback board is what will happen with suspended redshirt freshman Will Grier.

Grier has not practiced with the team since being suspended for a calendar year on Oct. 12 for failing an NCAA drug test. While he has remained in class, his future remains cloudy. He won't be able to play until the seventh game of the 2016 season, and his absence from the team has cast doubt over whether he'll return at all.

McElwain was asked point-blank by reporters on an SEC teleconference call earlier this week if Grier would return to practice for bowl prep -- a move that would make a lot more sense now than it did earlier in the year, when Grier could have been a potential distraction with meaningful games to play.

The first-year coach didn't really answer whether Grier would, in fact, practice leading up to the Citrus Bowl, though he did appear to indicate Grier could still have a future with the team.

"We're going to visit with him actually at the end of this week," McElwain said. "He's still part of the football team, and get ready for next year obviously."

That meeting could very well determine Grier's future at Florida. It's hard for the Gators to count on him for 2016 knowing he won't be eligible for half the season.

In that regard, it would make little sense to be giving Grier valuable practice reps during the first half of the season next fall. In the meantime, that'll allow other players to compete for and potentially take hold of the starting job moving forward.

Grier's suspension left his future at Florida in doubt, and with McElwain offering little insight into what exactly that future may be -- or when Grier could return -- maybe it's time for Florida fans to start focusing more on the tangible.

And that means getting familiar with players like Oregon State transfer Luke Del Rio, who will be eligible to play next fall after transferring, and early enrollees Feleipe Franks and Kyle Trask, who may very well be on campus by the time Grier returns to the practice field.

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