2023 DL Shymeik Jones sees recruitment explode following Florida State Mega Camp

Florida State held its second Mega Camp underneath head coach Mike Norvell over the weekend. With coaches from over 20+ faculties working the occasion, practically a thousand recruits over the 2023 and 2024 courses flocked to Tallahassee. Whereas there have been just a few nationally recognized prospects on the camp, nearly all of gamers got here in flying underneath the radar.

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One recruit who’s firmly on the map for school packages is 2023 defensive lineman Shymeik Jones. He entered the day with zero presents. Following a standout efficiency on the Mega Camp the place Jones was among the finest, if not the most effective, gamers on the sphere, he walked out of the weekend with 9 presents. He is now as much as 13 scholarship presents as of Wednesday morning.

“Actually, I really feel the identical,” Jones stated to NoleGameday’s Dustin Lewis. “I am very humble, I really feel the identical. I do know in my head that that is the start for me and I’ve to maintain going. Within the second, I used to be completely satisfied. That is the beginning. It is good to be completely satisfied however do not be completely satisfied but. Simply hold going. Simply hold doing what I can do.”

The South Carolina native first heard concerning the camp from Director of Excessive College Relations, Ryan Bartow. When considered one of his highschool coaches additionally talked about it to him, Jones determined it might be alternative. Clearly, he was proper.

“I caught the eye of coach Bartow and he began texting me about how I ought to come to the camp,” Jones stated. “He despatched me the schedule and considered one of my coaches got here and instructed me I ought to go to the camp. I believed it might be good for me and I made a decision to go.”

Previous to place drills and one-on-ones, gamers went by way of athletic testing. On an intramural discipline that wasn’t in the most effective form through the early portion of the summer time, Jones had no points. Standing at 6-foot-5, 255-pounds, he ran a 4.79-second 40-yard sprint, the quickest time of any defensive lineman.

“One in every of my fundamental targets was to only go on the market and compete and have enjoyable,” Jones stated. “I simply needed to indicate coaches that being 255 kilos, I’ve pace and I’ve the flexibility to maneuver.”

The presents began to roll in earlier than his exercise even started. Bethune Cookman and Valdosta State turned the primary two faculties to supply Jones shortly after his arrival. Then, he hit the sphere and coaches started turning their heads. Earlier than he knew it, Jones was sitting down with Florida State head coach Mike Norvell, who knowledgeable him the Seminoles have been providing.

“Coach Norvell, the top coach, he supplied me,” Jones stated. “I used to be completely satisfied. The principle motive I used to be completely satisfied was that he realized each single time a coach talked to me, I stored eye contact as a result of truthfully, I cared about what they have been telling me. That was actually the primary motive I used to be completely satisfied as a result of he noticed that I cared.”

“He was explaining how every thing he heard and anticipated earlier than I got here there, I confirmed it,” Jones continued. “I hustled again each single time the drill was over, I stored pushing by way of, completed by way of each drill, and I did every thing I used to be imagined to do athletically clever.”

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Exterior of Norvell, Jones is conversant in line of defense coach Odell Haggins and defensive ends coach John Papuchis. Haggins visited his college through the spring and Jones labored withed Papuchis on the camp.

“Coach Odell got here to the college some time again to see me and Xzavier [McLeod] follow,” Jones stated. “Then I noticed the opposite one [coach JP] on the camp and I started working with him too. It felt good working with them, they needed all people on the market to get higher, they have been pushing all people.”

Jones remains to be wrapping his head round his exploding recruitment. With that stated, he is starting to consider visits and it is attainable that the Seminoles will get him again on the campus sooner or later.

“I believe there’s a good probability,” Jones stated. “I hope there’s a good probability that I can as a result of I might like to.”

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