Ben Jones

It’s finally here. Penn State no longer has to wonder how the season is going to go; it can just go out there and find out. A Saturday night clash with West Virginia is a nice way to ease into the long grind of the 2023 campaign and with beautiful weather in the forecast and…

KeAndre Lambert-Smith and Harrison “Trey” Wallace will be Penn State’s top two receivers heading into the Nittany Lions’ season opener against West Virginia on Saturday, according to coach James Franklin. “I think you’ll see two guys play in more in starter type rolls that tap [out],” Franklin said following practice on Wednesday. “And then you’ll…

Penn State redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Landon Tengwall announced on Wednesday that he is retiring from the game of football for medical reasons. Tengwall released a statement on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing my retirement from football,” Tengwall wrote. “Unfortunately, I…

Penn State will green light four freshmen out of the gate this season heading into Week 1, according to coach James Franklin. The quartet of Tony Rojas, King Mack, Zion Tracy and Elliot Washington are are slated for significant action in multiple phases of the game. The green, yellow and red light system has long…

Entering his third year with the program, Penn State offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich is set to call plays from the booth, a change for the longtime play caller who spent the previous two seasons calling the Nittany Lions’ offense from the sideline. Yurcich’s move to the booth marks the fifth full-time or interim offensive coordinator…

Like most head coaches, James Franklin’s relationship with publicly releasing a depth chart is lukewarm at best. All the same, the vast majority of his tenure at Penn State has resulted in some degree of obligatory preseason depth chart. Sometimes with a healthy dose of “or” smattered across it, but something has almost always been…

With Penn State just days away from its Saturday evening season opener against West Virginia, there are still plenty of unanswered questions as well as reasons for Nittany Lion fans to be optimistic about the upcoming campaign as Penn State looks to win the Big Ten for the first time since 2016. With a new…

For all of the offensive and defensive talent Penn State has managed to amass over the past decade, it is perhaps no mistake that the Nittany Lions have found a great deal of success around the same time that the program had accumulated elite punting and kicking. Flipping the field may not win you a…