FSU football: Projecting 2021 defensive improvements under Adam Fuller

I’m so tired of referencing COVID-19 and the 2020 season for FSU football. I know it sounds likes excuses for a coaching staff, but there’s no denying not having an offseason impacted how the team performed as a whole.

Players could still work out on their own and stay in shape, but teams have to practice together as units for it to show up on the field.

However, looking back at the 2020 season and the new coaching staff not having an offseason, I began to think of what improvements we can expect on defense under Adam Fuller.

Technically it’s his second year with FSU football, but it’s year one in terms of full implementation of the defense.

Adam Fuller made big impacts on two different places in year one as a defensive coordinator.

That tweet, while true, almosts look comical in hindsight after seeing how the defense looked in 2020.

Of course, all things are not equal in terms of overall team talent, the talent of opposing teams, etc.

However, I thought it would be a solid starting point to try and project what type of improvements we could see from FSU in 2021.

Here’s what Adam Fuller did in his first year at Marshall and Memphis.