{"id":219396,"date":"2026-04-05T07:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219396\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:53:13","slug":"dayon-cooper-commits-to-florida-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219396\/","title":{"rendered":"DaYon Cooper commits to Florida State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mike Norvell and the Florida State Seminoles landed a commitment from a cornerback recruit today with DaYon Cooper announcing that he\u2019s joining #Tribe27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cooper is a 6-0, 180-pound athlete from South Pittsburgh High School in Tennessee. He\u2019s considered a 3-star by the 247 Composite and the 535th-best player in the nation (36th-best athlete, 25th-best player in Tenn.). FSU is recruiting him specifically at cornerback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cooper also holds offers from the hometown Tennessee Volunteers and other programs such as Texas A&amp;M, Arkansas, Louisville, Maryland, and Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cooper plays on both sides of the ball and was named the 2025 Tennessee Division 1A Mr. Football after a junior campaign in which he accumulated 1,252 yards of offense and 17 touchdowns. He also placed fifth at TSSAA Division 1-A state championship in the long jump as a 10th-grader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The coaching staff loves his athleticism. Cooper has the ability to flip his hips and stick to his man in coverage and he can hold his own in 50-50 ball situations. This is a solid pickup at a position with a mediocre board. I think Cooper can sneak into low 4-star territory with a strong senior campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Norvell and the Florida State Seminoles landed a commitment from a cornerback recruit today with DaYon Cooper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,3691,9837],"class_list":["post-219396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-state-football","tag-florida-state-football-recruiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219396","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=219396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}