Florida nickelback Marcus Maye will miss the next week with a hamstring strain, coach Will Muschamp announced Monday. After spending most of the spring as the starting strong safety, Maye entered fall camp as the starting nickelback. His move to nickel allowed Brian Poole to play on the outside, where he has helped shore up a young group competing for the starting job opposite Vernon Hargreaves III.

"Marcus Maye has a hamstring, I probably won’t get him back until Monday," Muschamp said. "It was a pretty good strain there."

Maye hasn't quite locked up his own starting job at nickelback, either. While he has gotten most of the starting snaps there in fall camp, Muschamp wasn't particularly pleased with his play at the end of last week.

"The nickel right now, Marcus would probably have the advantage I would say," Muschamp said Friday. "But [Thursday] he was really poor in there. He had some opportunities end-of-game situations. We had about four or five one-minute drives to win the game and he had some opportunities to make some plays and didn’t. So we’ve got to continue to coach those guys up and play well."