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A top 2023 offensive lineman decided to have some fun in his commitment video. Zechariah Owens fooled everyone into thinking that he was committing to Penn State by showing their logo to start his video. At around the eight-second mark, he then switched it to Clemson. This is as good...

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Penn State aims to bounce back into Big Ten contention this fall following a 7-6 finish last season. The Nittany Lions fell from 5-0 in 2021, concluding with an Outback Bowl loss, but have since used the Transfer Portal and a top-10 recruiting class to retool the roster. PSU opens...

Penn State is a finalist for one of the top-20 in-state prospects. Northeast standout Naquil Betrand is a 3-star prospect with 23 scholarship offers. On Monday, Betrand named his final 6 teams. Penn State, Auburn, Georgia, Kentucky, Syracuse and Texas A&M are the contenders to land the Philadelphia native. The...

Penn State has started strong in the Class of 2023. But, commitment season is here. These prospects could set off fireworks by picking the Lions soon.

Former Colorado Buffaloe commit Naquil Bertrand, a Class of 2023 three-star offensive lineman out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has narrowed his school choice down to six, and Penn State made the list. Penn State is in the running along with Auburn, Georgia, Kentucky, Syracuse, and Texas A & M for Bertrand.

Penn State aims to bounce back into Big Ten contention this fall following a 7-6 finish last season. The Nittany Lions fell from 5-0 in 2021, concluding with an Outback Bowl loss, but have since used the Transfer Portal and a top-10 recruiting class to retool the roster. PSU opens...

University of Iowa product Duncan Davitt got the start and was stellar, going four innings, allowing just one hit and racking up nine strikeouts.

Carmello D. Taylor, a Class of 2023 three-star athlete out of Roanoke, Virginia, has narrowed his school of choice down to five, and Penn State made the list. Penn State is in the hunt along with Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia Tech and West Virginia. Taylor was one of the standout performers at Penn State’s 7-on-7 camp on his official visit on June 24.

The Big Ten boasted two of the nation’s best pass rushers last season with the Michigan duo of Aidan Hutchinson and David Ojabo terrorizing quarterbacks from start to finish. But both of them are off the next level — Hutchinson went No. 2 overall in the 2022 NFL Draft — and it leaves a void of who the next big time defensive lineman in the Big Ten is.

Penn State football is about a month away from opening preseason camp for the 2022 season, and the Nittany Lions will be looking to return to the Big Ten’s upper tier after a combined 11-11 record over the past two years. Despite the records there was still reason for...

Damion Barber picked up a degree from Austin Peay recently, and on the Fourth of July he picked a new school for his final, college football go-round. Barber, a former Harrisburg High standout who played a couple of seasons at Penn State before spending the past two years at Austin Peay, told PennLive he will suit up for Marshall this fall.

Entering his fifth year at Penn State, Nick Tarburton is familiar with the ebbs and flows that come with a major college football program. New faces arrive. Old faces leave. The make-up of the roster changes on a nearly constant basis. Tarburton’s defensive end group is one that has seen...

Marcus Stokes can’t wait to get to Penn State. In April, the Nease (Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida) 4-star quarterback pledged to the Nittany Lions. Stokes felt a connection with the Penn State staff, he told 247Sports in a recent interview at the Elite 11 Finals in Los Angeles. “Penn...

Four-star Virginia high school receiver Carmelo Taylor trimmed his list of favorites Sunday to five and Penn State made the cut. Taylor listed the Nittany Lions among a group which included South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia Tech and Maryland. He also announced he will make his commitment on July 25.

Penn State football’s 2023 class could be poised for another big July on the recruiting trail. Multiple Penn State football recruiting targets are expected to end their recruitments this month and find a college home. July was a very kind month to the Nittany Lions last year as they...

All 105 is a Nittany Sports Now series profiling each Penn State football player. Here is a profile of redshirt sophomore cornerback Joey Porter Jr. Before Penn State: The name Joey Porter has been known to football fans for more than two decades. Joey Porter Sr. played 13 NFL seasons...

At this point, almost all of the Penn State Class of 2023 is on campus in Happy Valley. So it’s an excellent time to take an early look at which players might have the go-ahead to burn their redshirt this fall, which ones are a clear redshirt, and which players fall between those categories. The Penn State staff refers to these players as green light, red light, and yellow light players. So let’s look at the class and project and which players fall into which categories. We’ll only be assessing the true freshmen, not the transfer portal players or Lackawanna transfers. Today we’ll finish our evaluation with the offense.

The last leg of the recruiting crazy period is here for Penn State Football and it’s time to cash in on those June visits. Last July, Penn State football landed 12 2022 commits and one 2023 commit. The Nittany Lions will look to replicate that success this month. Penn...