Nittany Central Staff 
Penn State Football returns plenty of talent from its 2023 roster that won 10 games heading into 2024, including its starting quarterback, two starting running backs, and one of the top tight ends in the country. However, after a wave of NFL draft departures at key positions, Penn State will look to a few incoming … Read more
One year after Penn State Football cornerback Joey Porter Jr. barely missed breaking Penn State’s first round defensive back curse, Kalen King will give Penn State another opportunity to break the curse in 2024. In the 2023 NFL draft, Porter Jr. became the highest Nittany Lion selected in the NFL draft at number 32 overall, … Read more
Finally in Happy Valley after four years in rival scarlet and grey, transfer Penn State wide receiver, and PA native, Julian Fleming is making the most of his return to Happy Valley to play for Penn State Football. In the same month as enrolling in classes and starting training at Penn State, Fleming appeared filmed … Read more
Penn State Football is set to enter 2024 with a roster loaded with talent, but tasked with finding new starters at key positions on offense, defense, and special teams. After finding reinforcements in the transfer portal at offensive tackle, wide receiver, cornerback, and kicker, the Nittany Lions staff must now sort through the roster to … Read more
Penn State Football will get a visit from Pennsylvania’s top ranked quarterback this weekend as Royersford, Pennsylvania native Matt Zollers will again head to Happy Valley. The Number 1 ranked QB in #Pennsylvania in Matt Zollers from Spring-Ford will be back at #PennState next weekend Also has offer from #Temple — David Malandra Jr (@DaveMReports) … Read more
ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg reported Monday night that Penn State Football is hiring former Vanderbilt special teams coordinator Justin Lustig to the same position at Penn State. In addition to special teams duties, Lustig coached tight ends and had the title “associate head coach” since the 2022 season. Before coaching at Vanderbilt, Lustig was the special … Read more
2024 Penn State Football signee and early enrollee Cooper Cousins just finished his first week of classes at Penn State after enrolling earlier this month. Before arriving at campus, however, the 6-foot-6 inch in-state lineman from Erie played in one final high school all-star game, the All-American bowl in San Antonio, Texas. Cousins made the … Read more
James Franklin’s name has popped up in national head coaching searches over the past few years, but the Alabama opening is like no other during Franklin’s tenure. With Nick Saban, one of the greatest head coaches of all time retiring unexpectedly, one of the premier destinations in college football is open for the first time … Read more
Friday, ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg reported that Penn State Football special teams coordinator Stacy Collins is expected to return to Boise State as the special teams coordinator, linebackers coach, and assistant coach. Source: Boise State is expected to hire Stacy Collins as special teams coordinator, linebackers coach and assistant HC. Collins spent the last 2 seasons … Read more
n a very shocking twist to the offseason, ESPN announced the retirement of Alabama head coach Nick Saban Wednesday afternoon. After winning six national championships with the Crimson Tide, Saban’s shoes will be tough for Alabama to fill, however, the job will be a popular destination for head coaches around the country. ESPN’s Pete Thamel … Read more
Penn State students returned to campus to start the spring semester this week, and with it came quite a few new faces for the Penn State Football team. In addition to the Nittany Lions‘ 16 early enrollees from its 2024 recruiting class, both transfer commits, Julian Fleming and Nolan Rucci, will be on campus for … Read more
For the second time this winter, Penn State Football picks up a commitment from a former number one player in Pennsylvania out of the transfer portal. After receiving a commitment from wide receiver Julian Fleming on January 3, Nolan Rucci announced his commitment to Penn State Saturday. #WeAre Home. pic.twitter.com/ZClxPmGYNT — Nolan Rucci (@nolanrucci) January … Read more
While Penn State Football is trending for former five-star Georgia cornerback AJ Harris, the Nittany Lions had another former five-star SEC transfer portal cornerback pop up on a visit this week. Texas A&M cornerback Tony Grimes posted his visit to Penn State to X (formerly twitter) this morning after entering the transfer portal from Texas … Read more
With wide receiver Julian Fleming and kicker Chase Meyer officially on board out of the transfer portal for Penn State Football in 2024, the Nittany Lions are off to a good start to a pivotal transfer portal class, filling two key holes on the roster. If Penn State wants to compete in the new Big … Read more
Penn State Football has already exercised its demons from recruiting classes past in getting a commitment from former Pennsylvania five-star wide receiver Julian Fleming. Thursday, another recruiting miss, in Penn State legacy recruit Nolan Rucci, entered the transfer portal from Wisconsin. Rucci was a major target for the Nittany Lions in the 2021 recruiting class, … Read more
Even though the 2023 season has not even ended yet with Michigan and Washington facing off Monday for the National Championship, it’s not too early to look at the 2024 season according to FanDuel Sportsbook. In the early futures betting market for the 2024 NCAA National Championship, FanDuel is offering Penn State Football at the … Read more
Losing in the Peach Bowl to Ole Miss exposed Penn State Football’s inexperience at cornerback heading into 2024. With Penn State’s top 3 cornerbacks from 2023 officially off to the 2024 NFL draft in Kalen King, Johnny Dixon, and Daequan Hardy, Penn State Football will be looking to replace most of the production at cornerback … Read more
After one season with Penn State Football, wide receiver Dante Cephas is expected to enter the transfer portal, per On3 Sports. Cephas, a former Kent State transfer to Penn State, spent one season with the Nittany Lions, playing in 12 games and starting six. In 2023, Cephas caught 22 passes for 246 yards and two … Read more
Tuesday, Duke and former Penn State Football defensive coordinator Manny Diaz announced the hiring of a Nittany Lions defensive assistant, Rick Lyster, as Duke’s safeties coach. Lyster had worked with Diaz on the Penn State staff for the past two seasons at Penn State and at the University of Miami before Diaz was hired as … Read more
Penn State Football offensive line signee Cooper Cousins has been a longtime mainstay on the Nittany Lions‘ recruiting scene as the first commit in Penn State’s 2024 class dating all the way back to January 2022. Despite being Penn State’s first 2024 commit by almost a year, Cousins never waivered in his commitment to the … Read more
