Florida St lands JUCO Tavares Pressley

Florida St's regular season is over. Jimbo Fisher immediately hoped a flight to the golden coast to enjoy the sun, beaches and junior colleges of California. His primary target was a 6-1, 215 running back by the name of Tavares Pressley. Pressley accepted his scholarship offer on the spot and committed. He chose the Seminoles over Arizona, Nebraska, Kansas St, Ole Miss and Colorado.

El Camino College (Torrence, CA) has been good to Florida St. Corey Surrency, a top-10 JUCO wide receiver, committed earlier this season. Surrency and Pressley are roommates at El Camino. Pressley is originally from Arcadia, FL.

JCGridiron.com ranks the top-50 JUCO players each season. Surrency is #8 and Pressley is #12.

Pressley is a big back with game breaking speed. He runs between the tackles with aggression and has no problem playing a physical style of football. What makes him special is his ability to get to the corner though. Once Pressley sees daylight it is over. He can take it to the house on any play. Defenses don't give him the edge, he takes it.

He is built and runs much like Darren McFadden. Pressley probably does not have the explosion/speed that Run-DMC has but who does? Because he is so shifty in the open field for a RB his size, he has a tendency to dance to much but that is just something to watch and fix with coaching.

Living on JUCO's is a dangerous tight rope to walk however. Dennis Erickson and Bill Snyder are two guys that have made JUCO's work but few others have done it with their level of success. A school cannot live on JUCO talent though. It is nice that FSU has landed two game-breakers at skill positions but if a program ends up too dependent on JUCO infusions it will come back to haunt them.

All-in-all, great pick-ups for Florida St but be weary.