{"id":382331,"date":"2026-01-01T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382331\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:28:07","slug":"duce-robinson-to-forgo-nfl-draft-return-to-florida-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382331\/","title":{"rendered":"Duce Robinson to forgo NFL draft, return to Florida State"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State<\/a> has its difference-maker back for 2026: Wide receiver Duce Robinson<\/a> is returning to school.<\/p>\n

Robinson announced Thursday that he was passing up the NFL draft to return to FSU for his senior season. The 6-foot-6, 223-pound Robinson was second in the Atlantic Coast Conference in receiving yards (1,081) and had six touchdowns in 2025. He averaged 19.3 yards per reception.<\/p>\n

“This has truly been one of the best years of my life,” Robinson said in a video posted on X<\/a>. “I’m really excited to be able to be a Seminole again in 2026.”<\/p>\n

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He was Florida State’s first 1,000-yard receiver since Tamorrion Terry in 2019 and the 14th one in school history.<\/p>\n

A first-team All-ACC selection, Robinson had five 100-yard receiving games. He also was praised by coach Mike Norvell for his perimeter blocking.<\/p>\n

While Florida State had roughly 30 players announce their intentions to enter the transfer portal in December, the Seminoles have received good news in the last few days.<\/p>\n

The team’s top cornerback, Ja’Bril Rawls<\/a>, reversed course on Wednesday and said he would return in 2026. Rawls had 40 tackles, two tackles for loss and an interception in seven games. He was often viewed as a reliable run stopper, although Rawls suffered a season-ending injury in the Noles’ 24-10 loss to Clemson in early November.<\/p>\n

Florida State also announced on Thursday that John Garrett was hired as deputy athletic director and general manager of player personnel, a restructured position that “will oversee all football roster construction, player evaluation, recruiting operations and NIL integration.”<\/p>\n

Florida State is expected to be active in the transfer portal, which opens Friday. Robinson’s return could help the Seminoles attract a transfer quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State has its difference-maker back for 2026: Wide receiver Duce Robinson is returning to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-382331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382331","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=382331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}