{"id":95580,"date":"2025-12-25T11:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95580\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:52:19","slug":"tommy-castellanos-declares-for-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95580\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Castellanos declares for 2026 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 23, 2025, 7:56 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">FSU quarterback Tommy Castellanos has declared for the 2026 NFL draft, announcing the news Tuesday night <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tommy_casto\/status\/2003620337385439617?s=20\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">on social media<\/a>. He spent the 2025 season with the Seminoles and took the time to say what it meant to wear the garnet and gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cTo <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<\/a>, thank you for changing my life,\u201d Castellanos wrote. \u201cBeing a Seminole has been an absolute dream come true. From the relationships built to the moments that will stay with me forever, I\u2019m proud to graduate from this incredible university and I will carry the garnet and gold with me wherever I go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Castellanos started all 12 games for the Seminoles after transferring in ahead of the 2025 season. He had an up-and-down season, completing 58.3% of his passes for 2,760 yards, 15 touchdowns, and nine interceptions. He was also FSU&#8217;s leading rusher with 137 carries for 557 yards and nine touchdowns. He made some impressive plays, but also struggled to consistently complete passes and made questionable decisions.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/fsuwire.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/college\/fsu\/football\/2025\/12\/23\/fsu-football-tommy-castellanos-photos\/87702796007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - FSU Football: Photos of Tommy Castellanos as a Seminole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/87673764007-2247873089.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Castellanos started his career at UCF in 2022, before spending two seasons with\u00a0Boston College Eagles, and concluded his career with the Seminoles. He completed 58.5% of his passes in his career for 6,449 yards, 48 touchdowns, and 28 interceptions. He also ran for 1,984 yards and 24 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Seminoles may once again be headed to the transfer portal to look for a veteran quarterback ahead of the 2026 season. The only quarterbacks they will have on the roster next season are Kevin Sperry and Jaden O&#8217;Neal after Brock Glenn and Jaylin King both announced their plans to enter the transfer portal.<\/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\/2025\/12\/1766663539_572_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\u00a0and 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":"Dec. 23, 2025, 7:56 p.m. ET FSU quarterback Tommy Castellanos has declared for the 2026 NFL draft, announcing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[31,5114,303,50865,298,299,2860,924,342,41153,96,300,232,234,233,34],"class_list":["post-95580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-accessfree","tag-sstssportscollegefsufootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tag2026-nfl-draft","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagflorida-state-seminoles","tag-tagflorida-state-seminoles-football","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl-draft","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\/95580","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=95580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}