Recruiting
Florida State added a major piece to its 2027 recruiting class on Wednesday, earning a commitment from four-star defensive lineman Sam LeJeune:
The commitment moved Florida State up to No. 47 in the 247Sports Composite Rankings (No. 14 ACC).
2027 Florida State recruiting: Current commitments
- 3-star quarterback Logan Flaherty (FL)
- 4-star running back Jayden Miles (LA)
- 3-star tight end Connor Winn (FL)
- 4-star wide receiver Sean Green (GA)
- 3-star wide receiver Majay Thompson (NC)
- 4-star defensive lineman Sam LeJeune (MS)
- 4-star edge Anthony Cavallaro (FL)
- 3-star edge Jaxon Holly (GA)
- 4-star linebacker Jernard Albright (MD)
- 3-star linebacker Olrick Johnson III (GA)
- 3-star defensive lineman Eric Vaulx Jr. (MS)
- 3-star defensive back Jemari Foreman (FL)
Football
Mike Norvell will be joined by wide receiver Duce Robinson, quarterback Ashton Daniels and defensive back Ja’Bril Rawls at the 2026 ACC Kickoff:
Robinson, a senior from Phoenix, earned first-team All-ACC and third-team All-America honors in 2025 after becoming the 11th Seminole with 1,000 receiving yards in a season. Robinson caught 56 passes for 1,081 yards and six touchdowns, and his five games with at least 120 yards last season ranked second in the nation. He was twice named the ACC Receiver of the Week after wins against East Texas A&M (five catches, 173 yards, two touchdowns) and Wake Forest (five catches, 148 yards, one touchdown). Academically, Robinson became Florida State’s first first-team Academic All-American since 2012 and just the ninth in program history. He graduated from Florida State in May.
Daniels, a redshirt senior transfer from Auburn, has played 37 games over four seasons with the Tigers and at Stanford. The Buford, Georgia, native has thrown for 4,783 yards, run for 1,397 yards and accounted for 35 total touchdowns. In four games at Auburn in 2025, Daniels passed for 797 yards and added 280 rushing yards. He accounted for a career-high 442 yards of total offense against No. 15 Vanderbilt and added 259 passing yards and 108 rushing yards to end the regular season against No. 10 Alabama.
Daniels started 20 games for the Cardinal in 2023 and 2024, completing 63 percent of passes for 1,700 yards and 10 touchdowns in 2024. As a first-year starter in 2023, Daniels had a career-day against Colorado with 396 passing yards and four touchdowns and added 367 yards and one touchdown against Washington. Daniels graduated from Stanford in June 2025.
Rawls, a fourth-year Seminole from Pensacola, started seven games at cornerback in 2025 before an injury ended his season. The first-year starter contributed 40 tackles, 2.0 tackles for loss, two pass breakups, one interception and one fumble recovery. In a breakout game at Virginia, Rawls had 11 tackles, 1.0 tackle for loss and one interception, the first Seminole with that stat line since 2005.
Against Pitt, all 10 of Rawls’ tackles were solo, the first Seminole to achieve the feat since 2017. He returned a fumble seven yards against Wake Forest and ended the season with a pass breakup and three tackles at Clemson. For his career, Rawls has 58 tackles, 2.0 tackles for loss, three pass breakups, one interception and one fumble recovery.
Norvell, the ACC’s fourth-longest tenured head coach, enters his seventh season leading Florida State. The Irving, Texas, native has coached 38 NFL Draft picks, 22 All-Americans, five conference Players of the Year, one ACC Defensive Rookie of the Year and 122 all-conference selections in his 10-year head coaching career that began at Memphis in 2016. Norvell teams are averaging 34.6 points per game in his career, third-highest nationally among coaches active every year from 2016-26. Norvell’s coaching tree includes five current head coaches and 11 FBS coordinators, including head coaches in the SEC, Big Ten and Big 12.
Next up in our preview series — Norvell’s alma mater, Central Arkansas:
All Sports
LaJae Jones became the first pick of the Luke Loucks era on Wednesday after being drafted by the Golden State Warriors with the 54th overall pick:
Florida State sprinter Shenese Walker was named one of 10 semifinalists for The Bowerman on Wednesday:
Walker becomes the first female semifinalist in Florida State history, and the fourth Seminole overall to earn the distinction, joining Maurice Mitchell, 2011 winner Ngoni Makusha and 2022 winner Trey Cunningham.
The Bowerman, which debuted in 2009, is named after former Oregon Head Coach Bill Bowerman and is presented annually to the most outstanding male and female NCAA track and field athletes in the nation.
The award recognizes the top men’s and women’s collegiate track & field athlete each year. Ten men’s and 10 women’s semifinalists were determined by consensus from The Bowerman Advisory Board, which will select three from each list to advance to finalist status.
Walker capped off her senior season with two national titles in the indoor 60 and outdoor 100-meters, becoming the first ACC women’s sprinter to sweep both titles in the same year. The St. Thomas, Jamacia, native won her first career indoor national title on March 14 in Arkansas. The six-time first-team All-American dominated the preliminaries, clocking a record-breaking 7.07 to set a new conference and school record before claiming the title in the finals with a time of 7.08. Walker’s first round time is the 13th-fastest time in collegiate history and fifth all-time in Division I history
Prior to nationals, Walker added another historic moment to Florida State’s after being named the Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s MVP after a double victory in the short sprint with three consecutive 60 titles and undefeated indoor season.
During outdoors, Walker opened at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational in the 100, with a school- and ACC-record time of 10.80 seconds. The mark stood as the second-fastest time in the world for nine consecutive weeks. Walker remains the fastest Jamaican in the world this year and ranks fifth all-time in collegiate history and eighth in Jamaican history. Walker continued her momentum into the postseason, capturing gold medals in the 100 and 200 at the ACC Outdoor Championships en route to being named the Women’s MVP for the second consecutive year. Walker qualified for her third and final NCAA Outdoor National Championship in the 100, before notching her second consecutive national title of the year after edging out world leader and collegiate record holder Adaejah Hodge of Georgia in the finals with a winning time of 10.88.
Walker won the program’s third national title in the event and the first since Michelle Finn in 1985. The Jamaica native’s victory also marks Florida State’s 22nd national champion of all-time and the program’s first since Colleen Quigley in 2015.
The Bowerman finalists will be announced Monday, June 29 with the winner being announced on December 17.
