FSU football: Top 3 August observations with Mike Norvell

By Kelvin Hunt | Sep 1, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, FL - JUNE 13: Head Coach Mike Norvell of the Florida State Football Team speaks with fans before his team a unity walk on June 13, 2020 in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State players and members of the football coaching staff led fans and supporters on a unity walk from the Doak Campbell Stadium on the Florida State University campus to the state capitol building in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests erupted across the nation after George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25th. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images) /

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Rewarding Hardworking Players

I’ve written recently how Mike Norvell seems to speak more candidly about things that the last two previous coaches. Some coaches have “keywords” they like to goto to describe how a player is doing.

Norvell usually goes with he is pleased with the progress he’s seeing, but there’s still a lot of work to do.

One thing we saw Mike Norvell do is award scholarships to two walk-on players in Deonte Sheffield and Wyatt Rector.

Sheffield was a part of Jimbo Fisher’s final recruiting class in 2017 and promised a scholarship in spring 2018. Of course, Fisher was long gone to Texas A&M by the time the spring rolled around, which left that agreement up on the air.

However, Sheffield has continued to put in the work and has always been one of FSU’s biggest ambassadors on social media. Rector joined the program last year as a walk-on and has been known as a hard worker and has changed positions in hopes of seeing meaningful snaps in 2020.

As a former walk-on, Norvell understands the importance of rewarding players for putting in the work.

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