Highly regarded recruits from Louisiana rarely travel outside of the state to play college football.
That might be the case in the recruiting of Jaboree Antoine, a four-star defensive back from Westgate in New Iberia, Louisiana, who just decommitted from the LSU Tigers.
Antoine claims he is only considering a small number of programs as he gets closer to making his next choice, even though he has now fully opened up his recruiting to other universities.
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What should we make of FSU’s inability to attract LBs, and what will happen next?
After Tavion Wallace surprises everyone by committing to Arkansas, what will happen to Florida State next?
That, however, was not a dream. Tavion Wallace, a four-star linebacker from Wayne County in Jesup, Georgia, surprised everyone last night by choosing Arkansas over Florida State, the presumptive favorite, and other elite programs in Georgia and Florida.
Over the past two days, three linebacker targets for FSU have announced their decisions. With four-star Zaydrius Rainey-Sale staying at home and selecting Washington, four-star Gavin Nix selecting Miami, and Wallace’s shocking decision, they went 0/3 on those announcements.
The lack of success at linebacker during the last few recruiting cycles has been a hot topic of discussion on this site regarding linebacker recruiting. 2022 will see a limp duck Coach Manny Diaz of Miami defeated FSU in order to acquire four-star linebacker Wesley Bissainthe. That year, they signed Omar Graham Jr., a three-star linebacker. Following a 10-win year in 2023, FSU signed two three-star recruits in DeMarco Ward and Dylan Brown-Turner, as well as one blue-chip linebacker in Blake Nichelson, who left the program in less than a year. Following a 13-1 season in 2024, they added three-stars Jayden Parrish and Timir Hickman-Collins to the linebacker position, but they signed no blue-chip recruits.