{"id":366392,"date":"2025-12-24T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366392\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:48:08","slug":"florida-states-thomas-castellanos-ends-appeal-declares-for-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366392\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State&#8217;s Thomas Castellanos ends appeal, declares for NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 24 (UPI) &#8212; Florida State quarterback Thomas Castellanos dropped his appeal for a fifth year of eligibility and declared for the 2026 NFL Draft, he announced on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being a Seminole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSoCu7qDj2p\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:has been an absolute;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">has been an absolute<\/a> dream come true,&#8221; Castellanos wrote on Instagram and X. &#8220;From the relationships built to the moments that will stay with me forever, I&#8217;m proud to graduate from this incredible university and I will carry the garnet and gold with me wherever I go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Castellanos previously appealed to the NCAA for another year of eligibility because he appeared in just five games in 2022 as a freshman at Central Florida. He then played at Boston College before transferring to Florida State last year.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA initially denied his waiver request for another season of eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>Castellanos completed 58.3% of his throws for 2,760 yards, 15 scores and nine interceptions over 12 appearances this season for the Seminoles.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He led the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision with 15.3 yards gained per completion. He also ran for 557 yards and nine scores for the 5-7 Seminoles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been a pleasure representing quarterback Tommy Castellanos as he fought to gain another year of eligibility from the NCAA, which we firmly believe he deserves,&#8221; Castellanos&#8217; representatives at Just Win Management said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the unique facts and circumstances surrounding the petition for an additional year of eligibility did create a path of viability, after careful review and consideration, we fully support Mr. Castellanos&#8217; decision to forgo that continued pursuit and focus his attention on preparing for the 2026 NFL Draft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NFL Draft will be held from April 23 to 25 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 24 (UPI) &#8212; Florida State quarterback Thomas Castellanos dropped his appeal for a fifth year of eligibility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[515,118760,49,48,84847,157042,75294,157041,525,514,82,157040],"class_list":{"0":"post-366392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-boston-college","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-castellanos","13":"tag-eligibility","14":"tag-florida-state","15":"tag-florida-state-quarterback","16":"tag-ncaa","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-thomas-castellanos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}