Percy Harvin is Ready to Be 'Cut Loose'

The Florida Gators are off to another good start this season, winning their first two games in rather impressive fashion, and doing so despite the fact that Percy Harvin hasn't been around to contribute much thanks to heel surgery. Now the Gators are preparing to open their conference schedule against the rival Tennessee Volunteers, and for all those Vols fans out there who had been hoping Harvin would still be limited by his heel, I've got some bad news for you.

Percy is feeling better than ever and it looks like he's going to be the centerpiece of the Gator offense once again this weekend.

"Coach just came to me and said he's ready to cut me loose," Harvin said Monday, speaking publicly for just the second time in 2008.

Harvin's right heel had bothered him since his high school days in Virginia Beach. It was initially treated as tendinitis at Florida, but the pain persisted and eventually caused soreness in his knee and hip.

"I guess to describe it is like somebody stabbing me in the back of my foot," Harvin said. "It got to a point where I couldn't bend. Sometimes in the weight room I couldn't squat all the way down. It was causing bad tendinitis in my knees, and my hips were going all kind of crazy because I was over-planting on my other leg. It just caused all kinds of injuries to me."

Yep, that's right, Harvin hasn't been healthy the entire time he's been in Gainesville yet it didn't managed to stop him from racking up 2,477 yards (rushing and receiving) and 15 touchdowns his first two seasons there. Now he says he feels better than he has at any time he's played since he was still in the 10th grade.

That can't be a very comforting feeling for Tennessee fans this weekend, nor the rest of the SEC.

(Via Deadspin)