{"id":260730,"date":"2025-10-30T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/260730\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:15:08","slug":"the-five-best-worst-portal-evaluations-of-the-norvell-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/260730\/","title":{"rendered":"The five best\/worst portal evaluations of the Norvell era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worst: Marvin Jones Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>FSU heavily recruited <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/marvin-jones-jr-46094716\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marvin Jones Jr.<\/a>, a former five-star recruit and Seminole legacy prospect, out of high school. However, Jones would commit to <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Georgia<\/a> over the Seminoles. After two seasons in Athens with limited playing time, Jones entered the transfer portal looking for a bigger role. FSU, once again looking to the portal to find their next Jermaine Johnson or <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/jared-verse-46128730\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jared Verse<\/a>, made a quick decision to pursue the son of Shade Tree. While the addition made a ton of sense on paper, things didn&#8217;t go as planned once the Seminoles took to the field in 2024. MJJ, who showed subpar effort in practice and sometimes in games, had six TFLs and four sacks for a FSU defense that struggled mightily. He was only in the program for a year before once again entering the portal, landing at Oklahoma. He&#8217;s now a high usage defensive lineman for the Sooners but his production (four TFLs and a sack) doesn&#8217;t appear to be on pace to even match what he accomplished\u00a0in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worst: Marvin Jones Jr. &#13; &#13; FSU heavily recruited Marvin Jones Jr., a former five-star recruit and Seminole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-260730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}