Florida State Duo Named to Doak Walker Award Watch List
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As the
college football preseason slowly creeps to the start of the 2026 season, another
national award watch list came out on Tuesday.
Florida State running backs
Ousmane Kromah and Quintrevion Wisner have been named to the 2026 Doak Walker
Award watch list. Florida State is one of only seven schools (and one of two in
the ACC) to have multiple players named to this watch list. So far, the
preseason accolades for the Seminoles have gone to just four players, with the
majority of attention given to receiver Duce Robinson.
Ousmane
Kromah
Last
season as a freshman, Kromah rushed for 408 yards, but no touchdowns. He did
have one receiving touchdown on 147 receiving yards. Last season, Kromah’s
season-high in rushing yards was 63 yards against Virginia.
Over the
spring and summer, Kromah (6-foot-1, 216 pounds) has lost some weight and has
had a great fall camp. He is expected to have a breakout year this season and
will be counted on to be the lead back on the field.
Kromah was
a consensus four-star recruit coming out of high school, a top 100 prospect and
No. 4 running back nationally by On3. He landed on the ESPN300 at No. 139.
Kromah was the 6A Player of the Year in the highly-talented, super-competitive
Georgia high school football. As a senior, Kromah rushed for 1,356 yards and 15
touchdowns, and added 741 receiving yards and eight more scores. Florida State
coach Mike Norvell snatched Kromah away from Kirby Smart and Georgia, Auburn
and Tennessee.
Quintrevion
Wisner
Will the
2024 version of Wisner please stand up? That season, Wisner led the Texas Longhorns
with 1,064 yards and found the end zone five times. He posted
four games of over 100 yards, including 186 yards in a victory over in-state rival
Texas A&M.
In the
playoffs, however, Wisner was the Invisible Man. Wisner rushed for less than 50 yards in
each of two playoff games against Arizona State and Ohio State, and averaged
less than three yards per carry in those games.
Last
season, Wisner cut his yardage total in half, rushing for only 597 yards, and
scoring just three touchdowns. He missed four games last season, including the
Cheez-It Bowl against Michigan. He rushed for 155 yards in another win over
Texas A&M before sitting out the bowl game.
Kromah and
Wisner will run behind a retooled, but experienced offensive line, one that
boasts 107 combined starts. The Seminoles backfield, including quarterback
Ashton Daniels, will be talented for sure.
As the
play caller this season, Norvell will have to be creative, turning the pages in
the playbook to those few X’s and O’s diagrams that the defense will not expect.
The kind that you have not shown all year and master only during a particular
game week, play calls that put Kromah and Wisner in position to make big plays
for big yardage.
Do that,
and the Seminoles could have a respectable season. Do it not, and Florida State’s
offense becomes one-dimensional, a state of being that does not bode well for
gridiron success, nor coaches on the hot seat.
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