Penn State specialist set to enter NCAA transfer portal
A Penn State football specialist is re-entering the NCAA transfer portal after just one season with the Nittany Lions. Kicker Chase Meyer is moving on. BWI’s Sean Fitz first informed Blue-White Illustrated subscribers of the decision on Thursday morning. (Not a subscriber? It’s just $1 for one week, which takes you through the end of the spring transfer portal window AND spring practice. Click here to learn more.)
“Forever grateful to Coach Franklin and the staff for the opportunities I have had here at Penn State,” Meyer wrote on Twitter. “Happy Valley will always be special to me and a second home. However, I will be graduating this summer and will be entering the transfer portal as a grad transfer.”
He will have two years of eligibility remaining.
Meyer came to Penn State last offseason following a season at Penn and a year at Tulsa. He earned third-team All-AAC honors for the Golden Hurricanes after connecting on 17 of 20 field goal tries and 30 of 31 extra point attempts. He joined the Lions with hopes of winning the open placement kicking job. It went first to Sander Sahaydak before Ryan Barker took over for good in September.
“The percentage points were very, very close,” Lions special teams coordinator Justin Lustig said when asked to evaluate the initial position battle last fall. “We’re talking three to five percentage points between the top guy and the bottom guy. So that’s a good thing for us because we’ve got depth. We’ve got three guys that can really do it at a high level, in my opinion.”
He said something similar this spring. But, this time around, it was clear that Barker is the starter, even if the program’s mantra of always competing still exists. That undoubtedly led to Meyer’s decision. It leaves only Central York walk-on freshman Matthew Parker behind the third-year Nittany Lion.
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“Knowing really well our personnel and what Ryan did for us last fall in his first year starting, our expectations are very high for him,” Lustig said. “I’m confident that he’ll be able to step up. Now, we’re still battling, you know. Chase Meyer has had a really good spring as well. And Matthew Parker has stepped on in as a true freshman, too. So feel good about the depth there, and there’s some good competition.”
Barker connected on 15 of 18 field goal tries in 2024, and one of those misses was from 50-plus yards. He put up a 48 of 49 mark on extra point attempts.
Meyer is the sixth Penn State player to hit the portal this spring. He joins defensive tackle Joseph Mupoyi, linebacker Ta’Mere Robinson (who is now a USC commit), cornerback Jon Mitchell (who has already picked Georgia Tech), linebacker Beckham Dee, and offensive lineman JB Nelson.
Penn State closes out spring practice with its Blue-White game this weekend. Kickoff is at 2 p.m. ET Saturday at Beaver Stadium. It will not be televised.
