{"id":126378,"date":"2026-01-21T13:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126378\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:32:13","slug":"2027-dl-sam-lejeune-names-florida-state-in-top-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126378\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 DL Sam LeJeune names Florida State in top two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 20, 2026, 4:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/florida-state-seminoles\/3409\/\" data-autotag=\"06ee9050-e06d-4638-a179-a4d7f17000df\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Florida State<\/a> has been involved in the recruitment of blue-chip 2027 defensive lineman Sam LeJeune since he attended their Big Man Camp in June of 2024. He received an offer from the Seminoles that September, and he took an unofficial visit that November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">LeJeune took three more visits to Tallahassee in 2025, and he returned this past weekend for FSU&#8217;s Junior Day event. The 6-foot-3, 280-pounder has narrowed his choices down to two schools, and Florida State is one of them. In fact, they may have the lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cIt\u2019s close to the top, with them and Notre Dame,\u201d LeJeune <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-state-seminoles\/news\/fsu-recruiting-insider-seminoles-make-moves-with-several-top-prospects\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Warchant<\/a>. \u201cBut Notre Dame kinda stopped \u2026 they don\u2019t text me anymore. So I don\u2019t want to go somewhere that doesn\u2019t want me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">LeJeune is one of the best prospects in the 2027 cycle. He&#8217;s ranked as the No. 86 overall player and the No. 8 defensive lineman. They have him listed as the No. 4 recruit in Mississippi as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It was a productive junior campaign for LeJeune this past season. He tallied 58 tackles, 14 tackles for loss, four sacks, one interception, three pass breakups, one forced fumble, and five blocked field goals for Poplarville High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">FSU recently offered elite running back Ty Keys. He&#8217;s a teammate of LeJeune&#8217;s at Poplarville, and he was also <a href=\"http:\/\/fsuwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/fsu\/recruiting\/2026\/01\/17\/fsu-football-ty-keys-visit-junior-day-recruiting\/88231724007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Tallahassee over the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769002333_748_87125517007-renewalby-andersonlogo.png\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Contact\/Follow us @FSUWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Florida State news, notes and opinions. You can also follow Matthew on X @StarConscience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 20, 2026, 4:30 p.m. ET Florida State has been involved in the recruitment of blue-chip 2027 defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[31,33391,33392,298,299,97,43,2860,924,89,31494,307,49,300,9810,232,234,233,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-126378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-sstssportscollegefsurecruiting","10":"tag-sstsnrecruiting","11":"tag-tagamerican-football","12":"tag-tagcollege-sports","13":"tag-tagcolleges-universities","14":"tag-tagfacebook","15":"tag-tagflorida-state-seminoles","16":"tag-tagflorida-state-seminoles-football","17":"tag-tagflorida-state-university","18":"tag-tagfootball-recruiting","19":"tag-tagoverall-negative","20":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","21":"tag-tagsports-news","22":"tag-tagtwitter","23":"tag-tallahassee","24":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","25":"tag-tallahassee-news","26":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126378","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=126378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}