Joey Porter Jr. Position: Cornerback Recruiting class (size): 2019 (16 players) School: Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny Weight: 6-2/185 Stars: 4 (247); 3 (Rivals) Other top offers: Pitt, LSU, Miami, Nebraska, Maryland, West Virginia, UCLA, Arizona State, Syracuse, Rutgers Notable: ...
Anthony Whigan Position: Offensive tackle Recruiting class (size): 2019 (16 players) Hometown/School: Great Mills, Md./Lackawanna College in Scranton Height/Weight: 6-5/290 Stars: 4 (247); 3 (Rivals) Other top offers: Oklahoma, Nebraska, TCU, West Virginia, Pitt, Louisville, South ...
Several recruits were expected to commit to Penn State in the aftermath of the Nittany Lions’ “Lasch Bash” last Saturday. While the expected deluge of immediate pledges didn’t materialize, there’s been a steady flow of newly minted Nittany Lions over the last few days. The latest ...
The newest member of Penn State’s 2019 football recruiting class won’t need as much of a learning curve as the typical scholastic prospect transitioning to the college game. Michael Johnson Jr. is well-accustomed to the higher levels of football. “He’s been around football his whole ...
By Philip Cmor pcmor@altoonamirror.com Although it’s a small state, Delaware has turned out some pretty big football talent over the years, like Randy White, Luke Petitgout and Devon Still. Penn State is hoping its latest football commit from Delaware follows a similar career trajectory ...
For a couple of years, the Penn State football program has been forging a relationship with wide receiver prospect John Metchie, and, for a long time, the Nittany Lions were considered the favorite to land his commitment. However, when Metchie recently became more enamored with Alabama, the ...
By Philip Cmor pcmor@altoonamirror.com The Penn State football team set off some fireworks in advance of the Fourth of July on the recruiting front on Sunday. Lance Dixon, a speedy, four-star linebacker from Michigan, gave the Nittany Lions a verbal commitment via a video uploaded to ...
The L.C. Bird High School football program has produced Minnesota Vikings safety Anthony Harris and Notre Dame’s Jalen Elliott, so, when Blue Devils coach Troy Taylor says Hakeem Beamon might be the most highly-regarded recruit to come from the Virginia football power, that is no small ...
If things go as planned, the Penn State football team will put an elite defense on the field in a couple of years. The Nittany Lions certainly will have elite-level defensive talent. After signing top-five man-child Micah Parsons in its last recruiting class and a strong player for top-five ...
By Philip Cmor pcmor@altoonamirror.com Penn State’s defensive backfield recruiting for the class of 2019 has the feel of a sprint now — the Nittany Lions have more good players in the mix than they have scholarships. With safety JaQuan Brisker on board after a surprise commitment late ...
About a month ago, it looked like Ohio State was in the driver’s seat in the recruitment of blue-chip Virginia running back Devyn Ford. However, when Ford crossed the finish line on Friday afternoon, he was riding with James Franklin, and it was Penn State taking the checkered flag. Ford, ...
Penn State might be about to go on a run of football commitments. It got started a little earlier than expected late Thursday night. JaQuon Brisker, the Lackawanna safety rated as one of the top junior college prospects in the country, announced he had committed to the Nittany Lions on ...
The list of verbal commitments coming out of the Blue-White Game wasn’t as big as Penn State football fans probably were expecting, but the one pledge the Nittany Lions did receive on Saturday was huge. Six-foot-five, 320-pound Caedan Wallace, ranked as one of the top 75 players in the ...
The Penn State football family could be getting bigger on this weekend. In fact, it’d be a minor surprise if it didn’t. The Nittany Lions are entertaining a bumper crop of recruiting targets for today’s Blue-White Game — hosting 10 official visitors under the change in NCAA rules ...
There were a couple of false alarms over the past few months that Rasheed Walker was going to verbally commit to Penn State, so it was apropos that the Maryland four-star and U.S. Army All-American offensive tackle’s announcement on Wednesday got postponed a couple of times because of the ...
The Penn State football team has been loading up on kicking specialists this recruiting cycle, and, on Monday, reached into Blair County for one of the best in the state: Hollidaysburg Area High School’s Vlad Hilling. Hilling, the Golden Tigers’ Class 5A all-state place-kicker, gave a ...
By Philip Cmor pcmor@altoonamirror.com For the last couple of weeks, Penn State football fans were sweating out the commitment announcement of All-American defensive end Jayson Oweh, and the possibility that, even after he made a decision, they might have to wait until February to see if ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — James Franklin looked ahead to a sandy beach, a time when he had hung up his whistle as Penn State football coach and began penning his memoirs when asked about the question central to the Nittany Lions’ 2018 recruiting class. “The book will probably be five chapters ...
A quarterback just north of 6-feet tall who is nimble on his feet and throws a really good slant or deep fade — sounds a lot like Trace McSorley, doesn’t it? Yes, but it also would be an ideal description of New Jersey junior Taquon Roberson, who announced on Thursday that he was going to ...
By Philip Cmor pcmor@altoonamirror.com UNIVERSITY PARK — One had to wonder what kind of recruiting prospects Penn State would attract for a night game against 38-point underdog Georgia State. It turned out to be a really, really good one. The Nittany Lions hosted Micah Parsons and ...