Florida Gators

Finished his career at Florida with 97 receptions for 1,444 yards and 14 touchdowns. 2020: Started all 11 games this season before opting out of the Cotton Bowl to declare for the NFL Draft… Closed out the 2020 season with 38 receptions for 589 yards and a career-high nine touchdowns… Ranked third on the Gators squad in yards receiving and touchdowns… Caught three passes for 64 yards against Ole Miss, including a 22-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter… Finished with two receptions for 26 yards versus South Carolina… Logged three catches for 44 yards at Texas A&M… Registered three catches for 33 yards and one touchdown against Missouri… Recorded two catches for 27 yards against Georgia, including a picture-perfect acrobatic touchdown in the second quarter to log his third score of the season… Set a new career-high with six receptions against Arkansas and finished with 109 yards, his first 100-yard game since playing Florida State in 2018… Also registered two touchdowns against Arkansas and a defensive tackle… Logged three receptions for 44 yards and another acrobatic touchdown at Vanderbilt, as well as four rushing yards on one attempt… Finished with two catches for 11 yards against Kentucky… Tied his career-high with six catches at Tennessee amounting to 55 yards… Also recorded two touchdowns at Tennessee, his second game of the season with multiple touchdown receptions… Hauled in four receptions for 98 yards against LSU, including a season-long 50-yard catch… Also recorded his second defensive tackle of the season against LSU… Finished with four catches for 78 yards and a touchdown against Alabama, including a 50-yard reception to record back-to-back games with the season-long catch. 2019: Appeared in all 13 games and made 11 starts… Had 33 receptions on the season for 491 yards and three touchdowns… Averaged 14.9 yards per reception… Corralled a career-high five receptions against UT Martin and Towson… Caught four passes for a season-high 94 yards versus Vanderbilt… Also recorded a career-long 66-yard reception against the Commodores… Recorded his first-career tackle against Miami. 2018: Played in all 13 games and recorded his first career start in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl against Michigan… Totaled 26 catches, 364 receiving yards, two touchdowns and averaged 14.0 yards per catch… Scored Florida’s first points of the season on its first possession of the season as he took a screen pass for 34 yards to the endzone… Tallied three catches for 50 yards in the Gators’ season opener against Charleston Southern after recording just three catches for 20 yards last season at Ohio State… Recorded the first 100-yard receiving game of his career at Florida State when he caught five passes for 118 yards and one touchdown… That 118-yard performance was the top mark by a UF wide receiver during the season... Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. 2017 (Ohio State): Saw action in two games… Recorded three receptions for 20 yards.
 
PRIOR TO FLORIDA:
A 5-star wide receiver, according to Rivals, had his 2016 senior season end after his third game with a knee injury, but was considered one of the Top 50 prospects in the recruiting cycle… Grimes had a high overall ranking of No. 33 by Rivals and Top-5 receiver status by Rivals, 247Sports and ESPN… Originally from Indianapolis, he moved to Florida in the sixth grade with his parents, Leah and Lebron Grimes, and flourished at St. Thomas Aquinas on the football field for coach Roger Harriott and also on the track circuit… Listed as the No. 11 overall player by PrepStar and its No. 1 receiver prospect, Grimes had 42 career receptions for 770 yards with 11 touchdowns and an 18.3 yards-per-reception average for Aquinas teams that won state titles in 2015 and 2016… Grimes had 15 receptions for 274 yards (18.3) and two touchdowns as a senior before his injury… Named all-Broward County as a junior after a 27-catch, 496-yard season and led the Raiders with seven scores… Attended The Opening in Beaverton, Ore… State of Florida 300-meter hurdles champion as a freshman and sophomore, and was 110-meter hurdles runner-up as a freshman… Named Sun Sentinel 2015 Class 4A-3A and all-Broward County track athlete of the year.