From a hindrance to an asset.
That’s been the story for more than a few positions on the 2023 Florida State Seminoles football roster, a testament to the work that head coach Mike Norvell and his staff have heading into their fourth year in Tallahassee.
FSU’s linebacking woes have been arguably a decade-plus long, with the Seminoles struggling to find and secure consistent talent in the high school ranks across two coaching staffs. From 2010 to 2017, FSU signed 26 linebackers and of them, only 15 didn’t transfer or weren’t dismissed, medically or academically disqualified and that inability to build depth began to fully rear its head in the Willie Taggart era — in 2018, just three linebackers (out of nine available scholarship players) appeared in all 12 games.