FSU Football: Mid-Week Catch- up. Darrell Jackson Commits! + The CLIMB Episode 1 Debuts!
There are dozens of stories to cover but I break it down into what you need to know about Seminoles football thus far... and my two big predictions! UPDATED 12/8/22 12:30 PM
Miami DT Commits!
Number one story this week has been retainment.
Jordan Travis - Quarter Back
Renardo Green- Cornerback
Jarrian Jones - Cornerback
Kalen Deloach- Linebacker
Patrick Payton - Defensive End
Tatum Bethune - Linebacker
Joshua Farmer - Defensive Tackle
Robert Scott - Offensive Tackle
Rodney Hill- Running Back
Kentron Portier- Wide Reciever
Malcolm Ray - Defemsive Tackle
All five of these guys had options. NFL, Transfer portal, they were going to get paid somewhere. Luckily enough for us fans they chose to stay at Florida State for another year and get paid by the brand-new NIL collective ran by Ingram Smith. The Battle’s End collective, inspired by a line in FSU’s fight song, is primarily focused on the football team, and retaining current players within. According to Ingram they are not limited to only football. Learn more after the jump to my “The Battle’s End” article here.
Attrition following annual exit meetings is gaining steam.
I expect this number to end up around fifteen guys. Here is who we have officially declared so far:
Sam McCall- Corner (Safety)
Shambre Jackson- Defensive Tacklr
Jarrett Jackson- Defensive Tackle
Amari Gainer- 4-3 Linebacker
Rod Orr- Offensive Guard
Keyshawn Helton - Slot WR
George Wilson - DE
Sidney Williams - Safety
Lloyd Willis - offensive tackle
High-School Recruiting
The Noles remain at sixteen commitments since they earned the pledge of four-star quarterback brock Glenn. Mike Norvell has absolutely been burning up the frequent flier miles the last several days. It just hasn’t marerialized into any major developments thus far. With the scholarship situation slowly starting to take it’s shape I expect Norvell to focus in on his final push. The Seminoles are primed to potentially shock the CFB world with some signing period decisions. Tell me Blake Nichelson doesn’t look like a Hollywood casting for All-American linebacker?
Portal Players being targeted by FSU include:
Kyle Morlock- 6-7 TE - Shorter
Jaheim Bell - 6-3 232 TE - USCe
Casey Roddick- 6-6 300 Guard - Colorado
Braden Fiske - 6’5” 300+ - DL- Western Michigan
Fentrell Cypress - 6-0 - 184 - CB - UVA
Jeremiah Byers’ 6’4” 341 lb UTEP- OT
*Darell Jackson -6’6” 300 - DT - *Miami comitted via Twitter.com
Mike Norvell and staff are puttong together an impressive visitor list for this weekend. So far names like Kyle Morlock and Big-Time UTEP offensive tackle Jeremiah Byers have locked in official visits. Tallahassee will be crawling with bigtime targets this weekend for sure.
Keep track of these guys as this list is constantly flucuating and the next 42 days will be huge. Tennessee landingUC-Davis TE McCallen Castles leaves the door wide open for Kyle Morlock or Jaheim Bell to commit. We will find out soon and keep track of who the Noles are after in the portal right here.
Important Dates to Know Moving Forward
December 5th - Transfer portal open for everyone FBS in particular
December 9th Weekend - This may be the most important official visit weekend of the year!
December 21st - This is the first day of highschool early signing period.
December 29th - Nole’s play Oklahoma at CWS in the Orlando, FL Cheez-It Bowl ($6 million)
December 31st - The final day of the early signing period.
January 18th - The portal closes untol the spring period.
My Two Big Predictions!
Jared Verse will sign with The Battle’s End and return for one year!
Omarrion Cooper - Sophomore CB will unfortunately enter his name in the portal.
I’ll leave you with these Florida State Seminoles Tweets: Debut of The New Season of The Climb!
