FSU Football: Top 5 defensive players ‘Noles will face in 2017
By Kelvin Hunt
FSU football faced eight defenses ranked in the top 22 of S&P advanced metrics, and there’s a good chance they could face just as many in 2017.
In this particular piece we’ll be highlighting the five best defensive players that FSU football will face in 2017.
Luckily for FSU football they will be fielding a lot of talented players from an offense that finished No. 2 in the nation according to S&P advanced metrics in 2016.
They will be without All-World running back Dalvin Cook who’s in the NFL, but have arguably the most talented unit of running backs in the country.
The wide receivers are the most talented unit in the Jimbo Fisher era with incredible size and physicality.
There are some excellent players on the slate that will try to slow these units down. We could have named more players, but we wanted to give you the five that could be someone to keep an eye on as FSU football works its way down the schedule.
Let’s get into it.