National Signing Day preview: Which Penn State football early enrollees are on campus now?

More than half of the players in another top-20 Penn State football recruiting class are getting an early start on preparing for the 2025 season.

Sixteen scholarship members of this group were expected to enroll early and participate in winter workouts and spring practice. The rest of the 27-member class, which should be finalized by the traditional National Signing Day on Wednesday, Feb. 5, will report this spring or by early summer.

The class is ranked No. 15 by 247Sports and On3 − about the norm for coach James Franklin and his staff. It’s expected that at least a few of these true freshmen will provide immediate, meaningful contributions for a team that lost narrowly in the College Football Playoff semifinals and appears primed for another deep postseason run.

Each member of this class made his verbal commitment binding in early December, during the cycle’s early signing period.

And a main chunk of the early PSU enrollees star at Penn State’s position of greatest need: wide receiver.

Penn State incoming freshman Tiqwai Hayes escapes a tackle during a Class 4A WPIAL quarterfinal playoff game for Aliquippa against Latrobe at Aliquippa High School. Sally Maxson

Three of the four receivers in this group − Virginia’s Matthew Outen, New York’s Lyric Samuel and Florida’s Koby Howard − are already taking college classes and going through off-season workouts with the team. Outen, a four-star prospect, is the highest rated of the group, which also includes Jeff Exinor, from the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Md.

The other PSU early enrollees on offense include quarterback Bekkem Kritza, running back Tiqwai Hayes, tight ends Andrew Olesh and Brian Kortovich and linemen Owen Aliciene and Michael Troutman.

The early enrollees on defense: tackles Randy Adirika and Yvan Kemajou, defensive end Dayshaun Burnett, linebackers…

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Author : York Daily Record

Publish date : 2025-01-21 09:02:00

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