Watching Ousmane Kromah on the football field and he does not appear to lack confidence. Listening to him speak? He sounds confident.
But Kromah said the biggest difference in the last 14 months — from when he arrived at Florida State as a summer enrollee in 2025 to now in preseason camp — is his confidence.
“Really just confidence. That’s really it,” Kromah said. “The biggest thing for every freshman coming in is confidence.”
Kromah had 72 carries for 408 yards and added nine catches for 147 yards and a touchdown in 2025. Even coming in as prepared as he was, Kromah didn’t have the advantage of enrolling in the spring of 2025. So he was forced to play catch up.
His focus this offseason has been on conditioning and learning. Which, it should be said, will help make Kromah prepared and confident as he seeks more playing time this fall.
“This year, I want to be in there all the time,” Kromah said of his conditioning. “It’s more or less you want to be in great condition so you never want to come out of the game.”
FSU has a deep running back room. Beyond Kromah, the Seminoles brought in Texas transfer Tre Winser (a 1,000-yard rusher in 2024), return fourth-year back Samuel Singleton Jr. and added true freshman Amari Thomas. The coaches also added depth with Florida Atlantic transfer Gemari Sands.
Running backs coach Kam Martin has been pushing all of them in practice. Martin described Kromah’s drive to learn and improve.
“I'm very hard on Ousmane because I know Ous has all the tools to be very special,” Martin said. “And he takes hard coaching. That's what I love about him. He's a guy that's in the building all day, trying to get in the VR (virtual reality) boards, trying to study protections, trying to watch film.
“He's in my office all day. Ous is a guy that's going to go take that next step this year. I'm hard on him. I'm hard on all the other guys. And I feel like Ous, he's ready to go.”
Kromah discussed how one new aspect of FSU’s football building, the virtual reality room, has helped him learn.
“We were on that heavy during the spring and the summer,” Kromah said. “For pass pro, that was the biggest thing. It wasn’t hard for me but understanding certain blocks or certain things that were happening was hard for me to understand. When we got in there, I would mess up, mess up, mess up. But the VR room, literally you can move people. You can be that person and move him. It slows everything down. It helps a tremendous amount.”
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