Penn State recruiting visitor preview: Recruiting Show
Penn State football is starting to march with a roar in recruiting, hosting an impressive number of prospects over the next several days. The Blue White Illustrated recruiting show reviews the important names visiting campus on Tuesday and beyond to prepare you for all the action. Recruiting insiders Ryan Snyder and Sean Fitz also highlight several players they’re considering entering an RPM pick. Check out the full show at 7 pm on YouTube, or catch the replay anytime.
Penn State bringing new faces on campus this week
Penn State is starting off fast, bringing in several players for the first day of spring practice, and bringing new faces into the fold. According to Snyder, new wide receiver coach Marques Hagans extended an offer to a big-bodied wide receiver from Nebraska in February, who will join him on campus Tuesday.
“We have over 40 guys already confirmed between Mar 14th, and Mar 18th. We’ve been working hard on those lists over the last four or five or six days. So of course, March 18th, with it being a Saturday is going to be the big day. That’s going to be the one where I think a lot of fans will recognize a lot of those names, a lot of top regional guys that can make it up to campus pretty easily. But for tomorrow, March 14th, we’re looking at a handful of guys. I think Dae’vonn Hall, wide receiver out of Nebraska, didn’t see that one coming. A player from Nebraska coming to Penn State on a Tuesday.”
Defensive line still in limbo
Hall is part of a larger picture about the receiver board that Snyder and Fitz are piecing together this spring. Another place that they’re learning more is defensive tackle. Despite not having a defensive line coach at the even of camp, the team should push for numbers this cycle; according to Snyder,
“Just Penn State scholarship where, you know, we’re talking about numbers, but if we’re looking at the current roster divide, [Dvon] Ellies is a fifth-year guy. Hakeem Beamon is a fifth-year guy, and Jordan van den Berg is a fourth-year guy.
Davon Townley, who flirted with the portal this past year, is a third year guy. So you have five guys there who realistically could be out of this program at the end of this year. So that’s why I just think four. Do I think I see them all being gone? No, but I do think four is possible.”
But without a coach in the position, it’s hard to understand which players to focus on this spring.
“We got to see how that board shuffles a little bit. But to me, I love the guys I picked here; I think Xavier Gilliam is the one I think is most realistic in the months ahead. Again, we need to see the new D-line board, but just from talking to other people, man, they seem to think that this guy’s going to be a take no matter what.”
