FSU football: Pros and cons of offensive line recruiting strategies
By Kelvin Hunt
Graduate Transfer
Ideally, this is the group FSU coaches would love to pull a couple of offensive tackles from. These players are available immediately and have some quality college experience under their belt.
FSU has dibbled and dabbed in the graduate transfer market already. The former regime brought in Ryan Roberts last year from Northern Illinois and he was serviceable as a starter.
The current staff signed Devontay Love-Taylor from FIU last recruiting cycle and hope to get quality snaps out of him in 2020.
Graduate transfers can be a nice band-aid for one season, while younger players coming out of high school get a year to mature and develop.
Graduate transfers come with a couple of catches. Usually, they want to go to a program that’s going to compete for some sort of championship.
The other catch is they are in the transfer portal for a reason, meaning they lost their position to an underclassman or have a history of injuries, etc.
Just because a player from a Power Five program is in the transfer portal doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be a quality plug and play type of situation.