MIRAMAR BEACH — While SEC football coaches and administrators were sequestered in hotel meeting rooms tossing around perspectives on their sport’s pressing issues Tuesday, DJ Lagway was back in Gainesville tossing, period.

“He actually threw today,” Gators coach Billy Napier said of his sophomore quarterback while at the annual SEC meetings in Miramar Beach. “Making really good progress.”

These days, Lagway — confined to mental reps throughout spring practice while rehabbing shoulder and lower-body injuries stemming from last fall — is back on campus throwing three days a week. And while Napier stopped short of saying his fringe Heisman candidate is 100%, he again conveyed optimism of Lagway starting the Aug. 30 season opener against Long Island University.

“I don’t know if we put a percentage on it right now,” Napier said, “but he’s where he needs to be to continue to progress.”

Immediately after Florida’s annual intrasquad game at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on April 12, when Lagway attempted no passes, Napier said Lagway would resume throwing “in a couple of weeks.” Sixteen days after that statement, Lagway released a brief Instagram video of him flinging roughly a 20-yard spiral in an indoor facility.

On Tuesday, when asked if three days is the normal amount of time in a week he’d want a quarterback to throw this time of year, Napier said, “It’s about 210 throws a week to be exact, not counting warmups.

“We’re doing exactly what we would do this time of year ... so he’s on schedule.”

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