{"id":277747,"date":"2025-11-07T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277747\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:40:09","slug":"fsu-adds-4-star-composite-lb-gregory-batson-to-2027-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277747\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU adds 4-star composite LB Gregory Batson to 2027 class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/florida-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida State<\/a> has landed a commitment from four-star composite linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/gregory-batson-46154728\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gregory Batson<\/a>, a 2027 prospect out of Lee County (Ga.).<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-1, 208-pounder has been a frequent visitor at FSU this year, calling the Seminoles the leader in his recruitment after watching them beat <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alabama<\/a> in week one of the college football season.<\/p>\n<p>He also held scholarship offers from Florida, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State and Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<p>As a junior this fall, Batson is credited with 48 total tackles, four for loss, a sack and an interception per MaxPreps.<\/p>\n<p>Batson becomes the first linebacker to join <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/florida-state\/season\/2027-football\/commits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FSU&#8217;s 2027 class<\/a>, which\u00a0now holds five commitments.<\/p>\n<p>247Sports ranks Batson as the No. 17 linebacker nationally and the 247Sports Composite slots him as the No. 324 overall prospect and No. 23 linebacker in the class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State has landed a commitment from four-star composite linebacker Gregory Batson, a 2027 prospect out of Lee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-277747","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\/277747","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=277747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}