Lorenzo Booker promises to return for a Florida State game in 2023

Former Florida State running back Lorenzo Booker recently made a return to Tallahassee. He brought his son with him, Kayin Booker, who the Seminoles are currently recruiting.

For Booker, it’s great to return to a place that means so much to him and it’s something he wants to do more of this upcoming season, promising to return for a game.

“Absolutely, I’m going to,” Lorenzo Booker said. “I have to see, I’ve got to see Doak alive. You know there’s still nothing like it. I was getting PTSD in the stadium yesterday. How do you get chills in 90-degree heat? And everybody kept telling me that. They’re like that had to be nuts for you and I’m like, you don’t even get it. I ended up having to like leave for a minute because it was just like, everything comes rushing back.”

Lorenzo Booker played at Florida State during the Bobby Bowden, and even though this was close to the end of his tenure, Booker was still able to play in an Orange Bowl and become an NFL Draft pick thanks to his time with the Seminoles.

Today, Booker acknowledges how much his time at Florida State still means to him.

“It’s like you never left, but this was as big as my dream to play pro football was to come to Florida State, and I’ve virtually given away all of my other helmets in the pros and those things, but my Seminoles stuff ain’t going nowhere.”

Booker’s son, Kayin, is a six-foot-two wide receiver. Despite his great size and his father’s talent, he has been mostly overlooked as a recruit to this point because he didn’t begin playing football until last fall. So, while he is a natural athlete, he is also raw as a football player.

For his part, Lorenzo Booker is just happy to share such an important part of his life with his son.

“I never thought I’d be so happy to feel this heat and humidity in my life, but I am. I stepped right off the plane, and it was like I never left. I wanted to do the campus tour just as much as them. I felt like I needed it to a certain degree,” Booker said.

“He was literally made in Tallahassee. He’s been hearing about it from me and his mother his entire life. Everywhere in the house is Florida State.”

Lorenzo Booker on making the 2014 national championship

It has been some time since Lorenzo Booker has returned to Florida State. That included missing the 2014 national championship run while he was home in California. That run to beat Auburn for a national championship was a big deal for Booker, acting as a reunion for the championship game in Pasadena.

“Amazing. Right there in California, too,” Booker said.

“And it was really like a reunion for me. Leon came out and we pretty much spent that whole week catching. So, it was fantastic. But still, nothing beats being here.”