Multiple Years of Eligibility
FSU has taken smaller classes from the high school ranks over the past few years to supplement the roster with transfer portal players.
They were among the first to successfully navigate those waters, and now everyone is trying to take that approach while signing up a large high school classes. One way to offset the smaller high school classes and potential lack of depth at positions is to add transfer portal players with multiple years of eligibility.
The problem is it's hard to do that and find guys who have quality production to go with it. That was the mistake the old staff made last year, taking guys with little to no production. We'll get into that later, but over half of the nine portal commits have more than one year of eligibility remaining. Some might choose to declare for the NFL Draft after one year.
If that played well enough to do that after one year, their impact on the season was worth taking them. They could be a fringe draft guy and come back for that final year, so either way, that's a win for FSU.