Penn State QB Drew Allar recaps first three weeks of spring practice
Penn State football held open practice on Tuesday evening and afterwards, second-year quarterback Drew Allar spent roughly ten minutes with the media discussing his progress so far this spring. Check out his full conversation on YouTube, and subscribe to Blue White Illustrated so you don’t miss any spring content.
Allar tested daily by Penn State defense
The quarterback position is a vast check-list of duties that requires an attention to detail, and the capacity to keep all of it straight. Once you get on the field, facing a potential top-ten defense in college football tests all of what you’ve learned, he said.
“I would say like from a mental standpoint because they’ll present a bunch of different things throughout practice. And it’s really challenging just because of the players they have on every level of the defense,” Allar said when asked what the Penn State defense challenges him the most.
That process of keeping the offense on the same page to thwart whatever the defense throws at them is the job of the quarterback. Because of that, communication is key
“It’s definitely the most important part of being a quarterback, especially right now. Because there’s a lot of meeting time, but I think when we have player-led meetings that, we all come together on this specific day for us, and we’ll talk about one or two things a week for the skill positions. And I think it really helps the whole offense because it’s coming from the players and what we see. We’re finding the little details maybe that the coaches can’t get to in the meeting because of how short the meeting times are with all the rules around that and stuff,“ Allar said.
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Receivers that he’s clicking with
Finally, he was asked about which players have stood out at the receiver position. After mentioning KeAndre Lambert-Smith, two other players came up quickly. Third-year pass-catcher Harrison “Trey” Wallace and Omari Evans have stuck out as players taking a step forward, Allar thinks.
“He’s an explosive receiver, a super natural catcher, and he’s definitely really good at using the speed and changing his speed at the top of routes and throwing defenders by. He’s been really impressive so far, and
I think the younger receivers are starting to get it, especially Omari. I think Omari’s starting to learn how to play that position at receiver. He’s definitely using his speed a lot more than he did last spring because I think it’s just his confidence level is going up right.”
