The 2025 college football season is just over a month away, and it is nearly time for the Florida State Seminoles to start fall camp. But before then, they needed to finish their summer workouts.
They did just that on Thursday, and defensive lineman Darrell Jackson Jr. was called upon to break the rock. This has become an annual tradition under head coach Mike Norvell and Josh Storms, FSU’s director of strength and conditioning. The coaching staff picks one player who has stood out to swing a sledgehammer and break the rock to signify the end of the workouts.
“It’s going to take everybody. Roles change throughout a season. It might be one guy picking you up one day, it might be you picking them up the next day. That’s the way it needs to be. Be open to being led by your teammates,” Storms said to the team.
“It is the intent, the purpose, the drive to go be your best every single day. You keep doing that collectively, as a group, I promise you there is no limit to what this group can go do. I’ve watched a guy that’s done this every single day since that decision was made, no doubt in my mind, Darrell Jackson come break this rock.”
Jackson is entering his redshirt senior season with the Seminoles and is their top returning player on the defense and someone they will need to rely on. He finished the 2024 season with 32 tackles, 4.0 tackles for loss, and 3.5 sacks.
Florida State is set to start fall camp on Wednesday, July 30. That is one month before their Week One matchup with the Alabama Crimson Tide in Doak Campbell Stadium. Watch him break the rock below.
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Reporting by JD McCarthy, FSU Wire / FSU Wire
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