It's good to hear that Jayvan Boggs is having a strong start to camp because the wide receiver might be the key to improving one of FSU's biggest issues on offense — red-zone production.
Last year the Seminoles got into the red zone a lot more than 2024. The 57 trips were over twice as many as the previous season (27). And FSU scored on 46 of those trips (37 touchdowns, nine field goals). Hitting 80.77 percent in the red zone sounds fine until you do the numbers and see it was 92nd in the nation. Those numbers were even more disappointing on the road, with the Seminoles converting on 14-of-22 attempts (63.6 percent) and a 50-percent touchdown rate.
Mike Norvell started Saturday's scrimmage with red-zone work
FSU will need more from the offense in 2026 because the Seminoles might have to win some high-scoring affairs. That doesn't happen with field goals or coming up empty in goal-line situations. That's why Mike Norvell didn't waste time addressing the problem in Saturday's scrimmage.
"We started with that. The very first thing we did was put the ball at the 10-yard line and said, 'Let's go play.' There were a couple good drives and a good defensive stop," Norvell said.
A lot of the issues in the red zone come from the fact that Gus Malzahn's offense works best in an open field and once you get inside the 20, things close up quickly. Tommy Castellanos wasn't a good passer in short space and many of FSU's successful red-zone conversions simply came from him calling his own number and running.Â
Boggs gives FSU a nice mid-range target to work inside the 20, find the open spaces, and he's a big enough target for the quarterback to confidently throw the ball to. With Norvell calling the plays again, the pass game won't just be contained to all-or-nothing deep shots to Duce Robinson or Micahi Danzy. There will be more of a mid-range game and some "layups" in the short-passing game for the quarterback. This should also be beneficial to some of FSU's more shifty, quicker, younger pass catchers like Jasen Lopez and Devin Carter. However it happens, Norvell knows that missing out on scoring opportunities will not be an option.
"We'll build on that throughout the offseason," Norvell said. "But we'll get a good amount of red zone work this spring because we know we've got to be better offensively,"