{"id":160921,"date":"2026-02-19T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160921\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:39:10","slug":"fsu-footballs-herb-hand-praised-by-adrian-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160921\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU football&#8217;s Herb Hand praised by Adrian Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 18, 2026, 11:01 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <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 Seminoles<\/a> are pursuing three-star defensive lineman Adrian Williams, who is from Jacksonville, Florida. He has been a frequent visitor to Tallahassee during his recruitment and has built a relationship wth offensive line coach Herb Hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It was Hand who extended him a scholarship offer from the Seminoles back in May of 2025, and Williams told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/news\/sec-school-making-strong-impression-on-athletic-2027-dl-adrian-williams\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Benjamin of Rivals<\/a> that he is a fan of his coaching style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cCoach Hand actually came to the school last offseason and offered me a few days before the spring game, and ever since then, he\u2019s been reaching out to me and keeping that contact. Sometimes when you walk into Florida State\u2019s stadium, it has a different energy. Coaching-wise, I feel like they are going to put it on you. Coach Hand, he\u2019s a roughneck type of coach, and I like that, and he\u2019s going to push you to be the best you can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Williams is ranked as the No. 773 overall player and No. 83 defensive lineman in the Rivals industry ranking. He is also the No. 91 player from Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Seminoles already have a four-star edge rusher committed in Anthony Cavallaro, but they are still looking for their first commitment from a defensive lineman. Williams has already visited Tallahassee three times and will be a target to watch moving forward due to Hand&#8217;s work.<\/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\/02\/1771483150_292_87125517007-renewalby-andersonlogo.png\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fsuwire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@FSUWire<\/a>\u00a0on X and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FSUWire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/florida-state-seminoles\/3409\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Florida State<\/a>\u00a0news, notes, and opinions.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 18, 2026, 11:01 a.m. ET The Florida State Seminoles are pursuing three-star defensive lineman Adrian Williams, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[31,33391,33392,298,299,43,924,96,300,232,234,233,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-160921","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-tagfacebook","14":"tag-tagflorida-state-seminoles-football","15":"tag-tagoverall-positive","16":"tag-tagsports-news","17":"tag-tallahassee","18":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","19":"tag-tallahassee-news","20":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160921","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=160921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}