According to Chad Simmons of Rivals<\/a>, that is set to change this summer. Barnes is dropping the Kentucky Wildcats<\/a> from his official visit schedule, and he’s added Florida State. He’ll take his trip to Tallahassee on June 5.<\/p>\n At the forefront of trying to land Barnes is FSU head coach Mike Norvell and running backs coach Kam Martin.<\/p>\n \u201cI like how Norvell does things down there,\u201d Barnes said. \u201cAnd I like coach Kam too\u2026 we\u2019ve been talking a lot. He\u2019s a great coach. It will be great to get down there and spend some time with him.\u201d<\/p>\n Barnes has taken trips to see the Tennessee Volunteers<\/a>, Ohio State Buckeyes<\/a>, and Alabama Crimson Tide<\/a>, to name a few. He’s been to Tallahassee before, but as was mentioned earlier, his visit this summer will be his first time on campus.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been down there a few times\u2026 it\u2019s a good place, a good city,\u201d said Barnes. \u201cI\u2019m ready to see what it\u2019s like at Florida State.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m trying to make the best decision for my career, and I feel like Florida State is a school I need to consider.\u201d<\/p>\n Barnes is the nation’s No. 470 recruit and the No. 36 running back per Rivals’ industry rankings. The 6-foot, 190-pounder is the No. 18 prospect in the state of Tennessee as well.<\/p>\n His breakout season at Westview High School came as a sophomore. Barnes ran for 812 yards on 94 carries, and he gained 221 yards on 16 receptions. He ended up scoring 25 total touchdowns as he helped Westview go 14-1 and make a state championship game appearance.<\/p>\n 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":"May 7, 2026, 4:45 p.m. ET Florida State was the first program to extend a scholarship offer to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[31,112508,33391,33392,298,299,97,2860,924,89,31494,96,300,232,234,233,34],"class_list":["post-262834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-accessfree","tag-sourcefsu-wire","tag-sstssportscollegefsurecruiting","tag-sstsnrecruiting","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagcolleges-universities","tag-tagflorida-state-seminoles","tag-tagflorida-state-seminoles-football","tag-tagflorida-state-university","tag-tagfootball-recruiting","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262834","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=262834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778202850_233_87125517007-renewalby-andersonlogo.png\")