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Penn State picks up transfer portal commitment from top receiver Trebor Pena

Greg Pickelby:Greg Pickel•about 11 hours•

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Syracuse WR Trebor Pena
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Penn State has picked up its first commitment of the spring transfer portal window. And, it comes at a position of need. Former Syracuse receiver Trebor Pena has picked the Nittany Lions. On3’s Pete Nakos reported that the New Jersey native visited State College last Friday. And, BWI’s Sean Fitz told subscribers over the weekend that both sides came out of the visit feeling good about each other.

Pena stands 6 feet, 184 pounds. He is the third transfer portal pickup at receiver this offseason. Penn State also added Kyron Hudson from USC and Devonte Ross from Troy. Both are on campus for spring practice. Pena will arrive for summer workouts. He has one season of eligibility remaining. He hauled in 84 passes for 941 yards and nine touchdowns for the Orange last season. His career stat line is 109-1212-10. Syracuse coach Fran Brown suggested that his decision to enter the portal was partially but not completely NIL-related.

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“First of all, I love the kid. Trebor’s my guy,” Brown said of Pena on Cuse Sports Talk. “I recruited him, he came and played for me at Temple. Then, he got here. That was, what, six years ago? Then, I got here, and Trebor hadn’t played. I think he had 20 catches before we got here in four years. And there were somethings I had to help Trebor with, that we helped him with as a staff, and then he got better and had a really good year last year. Did an amazing job. As all the guys left, there’s a lot of pressure, I’ll say, in the world. Everybody don’t always handle everything accordingly that I would maybe handle it or you may handle it.

“But what I’ll tell you is this, we paid him enough. He was going to be paid more. There were different things that would go there. But there were some numbers that were asked of me that I didn’t feel I would be able to do and move on. Of course, I treat him right, I took care of him. Done everything that was needed. I just said, yo, you got to go. … I prayed on it and I kept going through things, and it was like, why would I try to convince somebody to be somewhere when I know the offense works? Because at Baylor, there was a lot of success with these receivers that all went to the NFL. There was success at other places. I was just like, now I have to tell him he needs to go.”

Penn State has lost six players to the portal so far this spring. That list includes linebacker Ta’Mere Robinson, offensive lineman JB Nelson, cornerback Jon Mitchell, linebacker Beckham Dee, defensive tackle Joseph Mupoyi, and kicker Chase Meyer.

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