FSU football: Top 3 offensive questions in 2023 spring practice

Young Wide Receivers

If you’ve been reading the site for any length of time or listened to my podcast(which I hope to get going again), you know how I feel about freshmen wide receivers.

It’s arguably the toughest transition to make out of high school aside from quarterback, and freshmen rarely make an impact their first year. Usually, they have to be uber-talented and early enrollees to do so.

Well, FSU football has two highly-touted freshmen wide receivers that enrolled early, Vandrevius Jacobs and Hykeem Williams. So far through spring, it’s been Jacobs who’s adjusted the quickest, and looks like he could find his way on the field at some point as a freshman.

The injury to Mycah Pittman was unfortunate, but an opportunity for someone like Jacobs to receive more reps. The most recent freshman wide receiver to make an impact was Rashad Greene in 2011.

Greene appeared in nine games with 38 receptions, 596 yards, and seven touchdowns. Ironically, Greene wasn’t an early enrollee and produced at that rate. Jacobs is the receiver more closely ranked where Greene was coming out of high school and shares similar physical stature, unlike Jacobs who’s much larger.

Could Jacobs defy the odds and become a dude as a freshman, or is he a “King of the Spring” type? The next couple of weeks should help us answer that question.