Transfer trends - leave and leave again - Tiger Boards Archive Forum

What I have noticed, decent portal players have transferred then transferred again. Look at a lot of our former players who transferred multiple times and then never found a home. Players that we wanted and have had tranfers and often issues like: Arik Gilbert, Just Flowe, etc. Players that leave and don't perform: Feaster, Pace, Bellamy, Ladson, Kendrick, etc. and other examples.

https://www.on3.com/college/florida-state-seminoles/news/florida-state-wide-receiver-winston-wright-no-longer-with-football-team/

Florida State transfer wideout surprisingly leaves football team

Warchant shared a report on Sunday that shared news that FSU WR Winston Wright is no longer a part of the Seminole's football team.

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Details on Winston Wright.

Oct 9, 2023, 7:18 AM

In 2021 he was WVU's leading receiver. He portaled to FSU in the Spring of 2022. He and FSU expected him to be the #1 receiver for FSU in 2022. But, tragedy struck. He was involved in a serious car accident. Missed all of Spring practice, summer workouts and the 2022 season. He was cleared to play and participated in Spring 2023 practice. He was projected to be #1 slot receiver, with Coleman and Wilson being the 2 starting WR's.

By the start of the season he was splitting time at slot with a true freshman, and there were two other slots that were injured. He has caught 4 passes this year. Both the other slot receivers are now healthy.

Winston has not gone to social media and announced why he quit the team. All Norvell, and the FSU athletic administration has said is he is no longer with the team. (That is the normal response when anyone leaves the team. A one sentence statement, "John Smith is no longer with the team.")

This is Wright's last year of eligibility. Speculation, but no confirmation, is that he could see his playing time diminishing and he just got frustrated and decided to move on with life after football.

There were no signs that he was anything other than a great kid, a great teammate and a hard worker. There was frustration among the fans that FSU was not targeting the slot receivers enough (sound familiar?) and not throwing the ball over the middle of the field enough (sound familiar?).

I don't know why he left. There may be a whole lot more to the story. But, "frustration due to lack of playing time so far this season and likely for the rest of the season" sounds reasonable based on the information the public has seen.