Mike Norvell, Gus Malzahn, Tony Tokarz and the rest of the Florida State Seminoles coaching staff finally got their man behind center.
After dropping the Oklahoma Sooners earlier this week, blue-chip quarterback Jaden O’Neal completed the flip to FSU with today’s commitment.
O’Neal is a 6’3”, 215 quarterback who will play for Mustang High in Oklahoma this season, having previously played high school ball in California. He racked up 30 offers and FSU beat out some major programs for his services in addition to OU. 247Sports Composite has O’Neal as the 205th best player in the nation (14th best QB and the best player in Oklahoma).
O’Neal was a solid commitment to the Sooners until they fired offensive coordinator Seth Littrell and replaced him with Ben Arbuckle. The Sooners continued to recruit other highly-rated quarterback prospects, zeroing in on past FSU target Bowe Bentley in particular, which led O’Neal to start searching elsewhere and eventually decommitting on June 19. After a ton of hard work, the FSU staff completed the flip today.
As I mentioned in the preview article prior to his official visit, O’Neal throws a fantastic deep ball and has advanced accuracy at this stage. I’d consider him a top-5 pure passer in this cycle and his mechanics are great. He isn’t as mobile as you’d like to see and therefore isn’t a perfect fit in Gus Malzahn’s offense, but he can certainly operate within it and shows good footwork. This was, quite simply, a recruitment that FSU had to win after failing to gain traction with its two other primary targets in Keisean Henderson and Landon Duckworth.
O’Neal played in 10 games in his junior campaign and totaled 3,040 yards on a 61% completion percentage. He threw 28 touchdowns and only four interceptions. His sophomore season resulted in 2,475…
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