{"id":299354,"date":"2026-06-07T19:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299354\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:05:18","slug":"florida-state-recruiting-blue-chip-linebacker-jernard-albright-commits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299354\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State recruiting: Blue-chip linebacker Jernard Albright commits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A big and welcomed surprise on the recruiting trail went Florida State\u2019s way today, as blue-chip linebacker Jernard Albright flipped his commitment from South Carolina to FSU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Albright made a surprise visit to Tallahassee this weekend and left as the newest member of #Tribe27. He\u2019d been committed to the Gamecocks since last Christmas but that\u2019s done now, with Albright stating \u201cFlorida State is most definitely 10 steps ahead of South Carolina\u201d to Noles247. Ernie Sims did an excellent job showing Albright his future as a Will backer, with Omar Graham providing a major assist as Albright\u2019s host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Albright is 6\u20192, 205 pounds and played for Effingham County in Georgia before transferring to St. Francis Academy in Baltimore, Maryland for his senior season. He finished his junior season with 50 tackles, three pass deflections, and two interceptions in nine games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He\u2019s considered the 169th best player in the nation by 247Sports Composite (12th best safety and 5th best player in MD). That background as a safety will be very helpful in the Will role at Florida State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A big and welcomed surprise on the recruiting trail went Florida State\u2019s way today, as blue-chip linebacker Jernard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,3691,9837],"class_list":["post-299354","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\/299354","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=299354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}