A homecoming has been announced today, as former Tallahassee resident and South Alabama DB Nehemiah Chandler has committed to transfer to FSU. On3\u2019s Hayes Fawcett first reported the news.<\/p>\n
Chandler, a 6-foot-1, 180 pound defensive back, is originally from Jacksonville, Florida but had stints at Godby High School and Wakulla High School as a prep. He committed to Georgia Tech and enrolled early, only to hit the transfer portal after a redshirt year and land with South Alabama for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
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Chandler found success in his first year as a contributor, starting 9 of 11 games at boundary cornerback as a redshirt freshman. He notched 32 tackles (22 solo and 2.5 for loss), 13 pass breakups, and two interceptions. He led the Sun Belt conference in pass breakups and was named First Team All-Sun Belt for his efforts.<\/p>\n
Chandler has three seasons of eligibility remaining. He should factor in to the defensive back rotation and it will be interesting to see where FSU slots him. He has some decent versatility and should be able to contribute fairly quickly once he learns the schemes. Chandler showed good instincts and physicality but will need to adapt to a higher level of competition.<\/p>\n
Chandler\u2019s bio from usajaguars.com:<\/p>\n
At Georgia Tech:\u00a0Saw action in one game during his freshman season \u2026 used the season as a redshirt year.<\/p>\n
High School:\u00a0Rated as a three-star prospect by\u00a0Rivals,\u00a0247Sports\u00a0and ESPN \u2026 First-team all-district honoree \u2026 Versatile athlete played cornerback, wide receiver and quarterback over the course of his prep career \u2026 Four-year letterwinner earned one letter apiece at four different high schools \u2026 Began high school at Westside H.S. in Jacksonville, Fla. as a freshman (2020), then moving to the Tallahassee area, where he attended Godby H.S. as a (2021) and Munroe H.S. (2022) as a junior before returning to Jacksonville to attend Wakulla H.S. as a senior (2023) \u2026 Helped lead Wakulla to an undefeated regular season and berth in the Florida 2S state playoffs as a senior in \u201823 \u2026 Coached at Wakulla by Barry Klees \u2026 Also played basketball \u2026 Honor roll student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homecoming has been announced today, as former Tallahassee resident and South Alabama DB Nehemiah Chandler has committed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,28591,596,63067,66709,208864,208868,23167,208865,208867,208866,85,208863],"class_list":["post-389970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chandler","tag-football","tag-fsu","tag-georgia-tech","tag-godby-high-school","tag-hayes-fawcett","tag-jacksonville","tag-redshirt-year","tag-south-alabama","tag-south-alabama-db-nehemiah-chandler","tag-sports","tag-wakulla-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}