TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Florida State has its difference-maker back for 2026: Wide receiver Duce Robinson is returning to school.<\/p>\n
Robinson announced Thursday that he was passing up the NFL draft to return to FSU for his senior season. The 6-foot-6, 223-pound Robinson was second in the Atlantic Coast Conference in receiving yards (1,081) and had six touchdowns in 2025. He averaged 19.3 yards per reception.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has truly been one of the best years of my life,\u201d Robinson said in a video posted on X<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m really excited to be able to be a Seminole again in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n He was Florida State\u2019s first 1,000-yard receiver since Tamorrion Terry in 2019 and the 14th one in school history.<\/p>\n A first-team All-ACC selection<\/a>, Robinson had five 100-yard receiving games. He also was praised by coach Mike Norvell for his perimeter blocking.<\/p>\n While Florida State had roughly 30 players announce their intentions to enter the transfer portal in December, the Seminoles have received good news in the last few days.<\/p>\n The team\u2019s top cornerback, Ja’Bril Rawls, reversed course on Wednesday and said he would return in 2026. Rawls had 40 tackles, two tackles for loss and an interception in seven games. He was often viewed as a reliable run stopper, although Rawls suffered a season-ending injury in the game against Clemson.<\/p>\n On Thursday, in addition to Robinson\u2019s return, Florida State also announced that John Garrett was hired<\/a> as deputy athletic director and general manager of player personnel, a restructured position that \u201cwill oversee all football roster construction, player evaluation, recruiting operations and NIL integration.\u201d<\/p>\n Florida State is expected to be active in the transfer portal, which opens on Friday. Robinson\u2019s return could help the Seminoles attract a transfer quarterback.<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/a><\/p>\n \n Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup.\n <\/p>\n \n Error! There was an error processing your request.\n <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Florida State has its difference-maker back for 2026: Wide receiver Duce Robinson is returning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,143,53434,28,30,29,57,4348,110,10921],"class_list":["post-102433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college-sports","tag-college-football","tag-duce-robinson-returns-florida-state-2026","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-football","tag-schools","tag-sports","tag-sports-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}