The defending national champions, the #2 Florida State football team has a HUGE and I mean huge in ALL CAPS game Saturday night versus #5 Notre Dame. Looming over a shadow of this contest is the Jameis Winston situation; which gets worse by the day. Friday was an awful day for #5 and Monday was pretty bad too. (We’ll cover that in detail here)
The reigning Heisman trophy winner has all the physical tools, and from an on-the-field only standpoint, could be the #1 overall pick nest year.
Of course, I’ll be booty called by Candice Swanepoel before anything even remotely close to that ever occurs now.
All the off-the-field issues for Winston have utterly destroyed his NFL Draft stock. This has been verified by Fox Sports Jay Glazer. Hey, when your moral authority, character voucher and voice of reason is a guy named Jimbo, well……So if Winston isn’t going to be picked, there’s still plenty of Florida State football players who will. It’s insane how much future NFL talent they have. We enlisted the help of our friends at Walter Football.
Upon perusing their 2015 NFL mock draft, the second round of their 2015 mock, and their 2016 NFL mock draft we find all these Florida State football players projected to play at the next level.
2015
P.J. Williams, CB, #11 overall
Mario Edwards, DT, #18
Ronald Darby, CB, #22
Nick O’Leary, TE, #34
Tre Jackson, G, #37
Rashad Greene, WR, #42
Cameron Erving, OT/G, #47
Josue Matias, G, #51
2016
Jalen Ramsey, CB, #12
Nate Andrews, S, #14
That’s four defensive backs and three offensive linemen projected to go in the first two rounds in the next years. Just an insane amount of professional talent on this Florida State football team.
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