{"id":39012,"date":"2025-12-25T03:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39012"},"modified":"2025-12-25T03:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:25:39","slug":"florida-state-qb-castellanos-drops-appeal-enters-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39012","title":{"rendered":"Florida State QB Castellanos drops appeal, enters NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"timestamp \">Dec 24, 2025, 11:13 AM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; Florida State quarterback Thomas Castellanos has dropped his appeal for another year of college eligibility and declared for the NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Castellanos thanked family, friends, coaches and teammates and &#8220;everyone who has supported me along this journey&#8221; in a statement posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Just Win Management Group, which represented Castellanos during his legal fight, said it supported his decision.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the unique facts and circumstances surrounding the petition for an additional year of eligibility did create a path of viability, after careful review and consideration, we full support Mr. Castellanos&#8217; decision to forego that continued pursuit and focus his attention on preparing for the 2026 NFL draft,&#8221; the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA initially denied Castellanos&#8217; waiver request for a fifth season.<\/p>\n<p>Castellanos, who transferred to Florida State last December after one year at Central Florida and two at Boston College, argued that college football&#8217;s sanctioning body should grant him another season because he played in only five games with the Knights in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Castellanos played against Tulane in the American Athletic Conference title game after starter John Rhys Plumlee aggravated a hamstring injury. Backup Mikey Keene opted out of the game because he wanted to preserve a year of eligibility before entering the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s moot now, with the 5-foot-11 Castellanos turning his attention toward preparing for the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Castellanos completed 58.3% of his passes for 2,760 yards this season, with 15 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He also led the Seminoles (5-7) with 557 yards rushing and nine scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 24, 2025, 11:13 AM ET TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; Florida State quarterback Thomas Castellanos has dropped his appeal for another year of college eligibility and declared for the NFL draft. Castellanos thanked family, friends, coaches and teammates and &#8220;everyone who has supported me along this journey&#8221; in a statement posted on social media. Just Win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[713,21243,1284,2573,12307,3649,4084,199],"class_list":{"0":"post-39012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-appeal","9":"tag-castellanos","10":"tag-draft","11":"tag-drops","12":"tag-enters","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}