{"id":397710,"date":"2026-01-09T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397710\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:43:07","slug":"auburn-lt-transfer-xavier-chaplin-commits-to-florida-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397710\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn LT transfer Xavier Chaplin commits to Florida State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/florida-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida State<\/a> has landed a commitment from <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/auburn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Auburn<\/a> left tackle transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/xavier-chaplin-46117935\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Xavier Chaplin<\/a>\u00a0on Friday morning, a day after he concluded his visit to Florida State.<\/p>\n<p>Chaplin chose the Seminoles over <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/kentucky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kentucky<\/a>, where he visited prior to his trip to Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>Chaplin, who is listed at 6-foot-7, 348-pounds, started all 12 games at left tackle for the Tigers in 2025, totaling 823 snaps and finishing with a 56.6 PFF grade on the season. He was a better pass blocker (71.1 grade) than run blocker (56.1) and was a bit penalty prone with 12 flags called on him last season. He gave up three sacks, three quarterback hits and 17 pressures.<\/p>\n<p>He arrived at Auburn last offseason via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/virginia-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Virginia Tech<\/a>, playing\u00a0the previous three seaons for the Hokies. He was their starting left tackle in both 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>247Sports ranks Chaplin as the No. 67 overall player and No. 7 offensive tackle in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/season\/2026-football\/transferportaltop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transfer portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He joins a transfer offensive line class for FSU that features three other commitments: <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/bowling-green\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bowling Green<\/a> offensive tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/nate-pabst-46098501\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nate Pabst<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/purdue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Purdue<\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/bradyn-joiner-46101116\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bradyn Joiner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/troy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Troy<\/a> interior offensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/paul-bowling-46145191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paul Bowling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State has landed a commitment from Auburn left tackle transfer Xavier Chaplin\u00a0on Friday morning, a day after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-397710","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\/397710","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=397710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}