With Miami in town and a nationally-televised primetime game on the schedule, it was a huge recruiting weekend for FSU and a major opportunity to show the top recruits in the 2027 class what Seminoles football is all about.
One of those blue chippers is quarterback Kavian Bryant. FSU has been aggressively going after the prospect from Palestine, Texas, and it looks like that work has paid off. Bryant has the Seminoles listed among his final five schools.
Where’s home???? 🏠 pic.twitter.com/7ri7xLrgDX
— Kavian Bryant (@KavianBryant27) October 6, 2025
It's a Texas-heavy list with Texas, SMU and Texas Tech on there. Previous reports had Bryant rumored to be taking the big bag of cash that Texas Tech is sure to offer. FSU and Colorado were in line to be the out-of-state programs and both schools edged out Michigan.
Bryant has said that he'd like to make a decision by the end of October and definitely before the Early Signing Period in December. He was at FSU earlier this season for the Alabama game and spent the past weekend at SMU. At the time of his FSU visit, Rivals/On3 national recruiting writer Steve Wlitfong said that Bryant's interest in FSU was real.
"He's VERY high on Florida State"@SWiltfong_ says FSU is offering No. 1 QB Kavian Bryant the opportunity to play football and basketball in Tallahassee.
— Josh Newberg (@josh_newberg) August 26, 2025
Bryant will be in Doak for the opener against Bama 🍢
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""Kavian Bryant was one of [FSU's] early targets, they are one of the programs that has built a great rapport with him. He's very high on Florida State. He's talked about their history. He knows that Charlie Ward was a terrific two-sport athlete and Florida State is offering him the opportunity to play basketball and football.""Rivals/On3's Steve Wiltfong
FSU has to figure out its future at QB
Right now, FSU's quarterback room has Tommy Castellanos, a senior, and behind him there's true freshman Kevin Sperry and redshirt sophomore Brock Glenn. The Seminoles have Jaden O'Neal coming in with the 2026 class.
Even if Castellanos can get a waiver to come back next year, there's no guarantee that FSU will be willing to pay him again, especially if he doesn't finish the season strong. So the likelihood of hitting the portal again and possibly losing Glenn to a transfer is high.
But eventually, FSU has to get a quarterback that they can build around. Mike Norvell has yet to have a home-grown quarterback prospect make an impact at FSU. Bryant could certainly be that guy, but he'll need a lot of reasons to leave the Lone Star State.