{"id":274969,"date":"2026-05-18T10:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274969\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:42:15","slug":"fsu-football-florida-state-heavily-pursuing-safety-tashawn-poole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274969\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU Football: Florida State heavily pursuing safety Ta&#8217;Shawn Poole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 17, 2026, 3:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Four-star safety Ta&#8217;Shawn Poole is one of the top uncommitted prospects in the 2027 recruiting cycle, and he&#8217;s a major target for 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>. However, he&#8217;s also a target for a plethora of schools, particularly in the SEC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The 6-foot-2, 185-pounder does have several schools that are creating some distance from the others, <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/longformarticle\/commit-flip-watch-latest-rumblings-top-100-285079204\/#2827026\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per Tom Loy of 247Sports<\/a>. FSU is one of them, confirming that his recent visit in April went well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;The Peach State standout is still considering LSU, Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Florida State, and Tennessee. According to 247Sports&#8217; Benjamin Wolk, the most buzz\u00a0remains on the Volunteer, but the Tide and Seminoles have cut into that lead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Tennessee hosted Poole for a spring scrimmage about a week before his trip to Florida State last month. On June 5, Tennessee has an official visit with Poole, which is two weeks before he&#8217;ll be back in Tallahassee on June 19. Alabama offered him back in January, and they had him on campus for a spring practice in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Poole is the No. 59 player nationally and the No. 5 safety per the 247Sports composite rankings. He&#8217;s also the No. 5 prospect in the state of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">FSU is also heavily in the mix for <a href=\"http:\/\/fsuwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/fsu\/recruiting\/2026\/05\/17\/fsu-football-jeremiah-official-visit-recruiting\/90129894007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blue-chip safety Jeremiah Proctor<\/a>. They&#8217;re looking for more talent to add to four-star safety Mekhi Williams, three-star safety Jemari Foreman, and three-star cornerback Dayon Cooper in their secondary haul for the <a href=\"http:\/\/fsuwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/fsu\/recruiting\/2025\/04\/02\/fsu-football-seminoles-2027-recruiting-class-tracker\/82774808007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2027 class<\/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\/05\/1779100935_818_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":"May 17, 2026, 3:30 p.m. ET Four-star safety Ta&#8217;Shawn Poole is one of the top uncommitted prospects in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[31,112508,33391,33392,298,299,2860,924,89,31494,96,300,232,234,233,34],"class_list":["post-274969","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-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\/274969","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=274969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}