Noles News: FSU sitting at 15 portal commitments

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Noles News: FSU sitting at 15 portal commitments

Recruiting

Florida State picked up another transfer portal commitment on Tuesday, with Duke defensive back Ma’khi Jones announcing his decision to join the Seminoles:

Florida State now has 15 portal commitments, with the window set to close on Friday:

  • Quarterback Ashton Daniels (Auburn), 1 year of eligibility left
  • Running back Tre Wisner (Texas), 1 year of eligibility left
  • Tight end Desirrio Riles (East Carolina), 1 year of eligibility left
  • Offensive lineman Nate Pabst (Bowling Green), 1 year of eligibility left
  • Offensive lineman Bradyn Joiner(Purdue), 2 years of eligibility left
  • Offensive lineman Paul Bowling (Troy), 3 years of eligibility left
  • Offensive lineman Xavier Chaplin (Auburn), 1 year of eligibility remaining
  • Offensive lineman Chimdia Nwaiwu (Stephen F. Austin), 2 years of eligibility left
  • Edge rusher Rylan Kennedy (Texas A&M), 2 years of eligibility left
  • Defensive back Nehemiah Chandler (South Alabama), 3 years of eligibility left
  • Defensive back Karson Hobbs (Notre Dame), 2 years of eligibility left
  • Defensive back CJ Richard (Illinois State), 3 years of eligibility left
  • Defensive back Ma’khi Jones (Duke Blue Devils), 3 years of eligibility left
  • Punter Daniel Hughes (New Mexico), 3 years of eligibility left
  • Long snapper Caleb Bowers (North Dakota State Bison), 1 year of eligibility left

The Seminoles have seen 34 scholarship players enter the portal:

Football

Ashlynd Barker, after saying he was joking in an earlier deleted post, apologized for his comments during a TikTok livestream:

I would like to apologize for some of the comments I made during my live stream yesterday. I did not choose my words as well as I could have in response to a couple of questions presented to me. I love Florida State and have tried to represent it well in my time here. I am grateful for the opportunity I’ve been given to play with the guys in our locker room in my time here, and I’m truly sorry that my comments created the opposite impression.

Barker made remarks dismissive of the coaching staff’s approach to the roster, at one point remarking that there won’t be enough players to hold practice and adding that they were taking too many defensive backs, while also saying he thought other players were returning when he chose to withdraw his name from the portal.

Basketball

Florida State fell to 0-4 in ACC play with a loss to Syracuse on Saturday:

All Sports

Florida State forward Jordynn Dudley has been named the winner of the Honda Sport Award for Soccer, the fourth winner in school history:

Dudley is now a finalist for the prestigious Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and Class of 2026 Honda Cup, which will be presented in July. Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025-26, the CWSA and the Honda Sport Award honors the nation’s best female athletes in 12 NCAA sports.

Dudley is joined by Natalia Kuikka (2018-19), Jaelin Howell (2021-22) and Onyi Echegini (2023-24) as winners of the Honda Award in FSU history. Since Florida State earned its first award in 2018-19, the Seminoles have had four of the eight winners, with no other program having more than one. FSU’s four winners since 2018 matches the next-closest team’s combined number of winners and finalists in that timeframe, as two programs have had one winner and three additional finalists. Florida State also has had three finalists along with its four winners since 2018, with a finalist every year except for 2019-20.

The fifth student-athlete across all of FSU’s teams to earn the prestigious honor, Dudley, Kuikka, Howell and Echegini are joined by softball’s Jessica van der Linden, who was her sport’s awardee in 2003-04.

During a standout 2025 campaign while leading the Seminoles to their fifth national championship, and her second in her three-year tenure, Dudley also was a finalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy and Top Drawer Soccer’s National Player of the Year. She is a First Team All-American by United Soccer Coaches and a Best XI First Team honoree by TDS.

Dudley is the first player in program history to earn three career All-America honors with two of them being First Team, as she is the fourth player in FSU history to be named an All-American three times and the first to do it in her first three seasons. Dudley also is the fourth player to be named to the First Team twice.

An All-Region First Team and First Team All-ACC awardee all three years, Dudley twice earned Player of the Week accolades in 2025, nationally by TDS on December 2 and by the ACC on October 28.

As a junior in 2025, Dudley led the team with 14 assists, 36 points and 88 shots and was second with 11 goals, three game-winning goals and 32 shots on goal in 2025. She registered three braces and five games with at least three points, including a two-goal, one-assist contest in the NCAA Quarterfinal. In the regular season, Dudley had at least a point in 13 consecutive games, with a goal in seven of those contests and at least two points nine times. She had three braces and five games with at least three points.

The Milton, Georgia, native finished the year ranked No. 6 nationally in assists per game (0.64), No. 5 in total assists (14), No. 17 in total points (36) and shots per game (4.00) and No. 20 in points per game (1.64). In conference play, she led the ACC in assists (9) and shots (46), was second in points (23) and tied for fourth in goals (7).

Dudley helped FSU win its fifth national title with a 16-2-4 overall record in 2025. The NCAA title is FSU’s third in the last five years and second in three, as Dudley is now a two-time NCAA champion.

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