Clifford, McSorley, Hackenberg: Former Penn State QBs talk shop
Penn State lettermen Christian Hackenberg, Trace McSorley and Sean Clifford answered audience questions during an NIL event before the annual Blue-White game.
The next step of the Penn State football receiving room overhaul is underway.
The first of the Nittany Lions’ 15 spring practices are this week. They’ll culminate in the anything-but-normal Blue-White Game in renovating Beaver Stadium in late April.
These will be the first, best chances yet for the Lions’ two highly-anticipated transfer receivers to impress.
Meet Kyron Hudson and Devonte Ross. Coach James Franklin talked about them in detail on Tuesday, during his annual spring practice kickoff press conference.
Hudson is 6-foot-1 and 212 pounds came from USC.
Ross is 5-foot-10, 170 pounds and came from Troy, in the Sun Belt Conference.
Both are seniors who figure to compete for starting roles as outside receivers. They will become immediate leaders in a room that must replace most of what inconsistent, if not lackluster, production it did get there last year. The leading returning wideout, redshirt senior Liam Clifford, made just 18 catches in 2024.
Penn State will now roll with Clifford and so many unproven parts, like Tyseer Denmark (redshirted last year as a freshman), junior Kaden Saunders (missed most of last year to injury) and rookies like Matthew Outen.
That’s where Hudson and Ross come in − each with one year of eligibility at PSU.
Hudson, a bigger-bodied wideout, was steadily productive at USC with 72 receptions and 807 yards in four seasons.
“He’s a guy who comes from a great high school program, played at a big-time college program, had success at this level already,” Franklin said. “Whoever you talk to from his high school, whoever you talk to from his previous institution and from our…
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