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Florida's 48 for 2014, No. 16: Remember when VH3 wore No. 16?

Before VH3 was No. 1, he was No. 16. If you blinked, you missed it.

Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

There may be three lessons to learn from Skyler Mornhinweg that I can shoehorn into a No. 17 entry for the 48 for 2014, but there's really only one that I can write about when mentioning Vernon Hargreaves III's one-game stint as the guy in the No. 16 jersey for Florida.

So I'll write it in big letters.

At Florida, as run by Will Muschamp, if you are a badass football player, and you do what you are supposed to do in practice and in games, and you lead your teammates well, you will be rewarded with the chance to play football early, often, and in your chosen number.

Even hundreds of feet from the field in the clay-firing heat at Sun Life Stadium, the thrill I got from realizing that Hargreaves had gotten the No. 1 jersey was one of my best memories from the 2013 season.

And, yes, I realize that that's a shallow Pensieve to pluck from.

But I'll still remember it for a long while.

(I'll get back to VH3 again in this countdown, trust me.)