Mike Poorman

College football magazine savant Phil Steele says Penn State’s offensive line is the best in the nation heading into the much-hyped 2025 season. Does it have a chance to be the best O-line in Nittany Lion football history, which dates back to 1887? With quarterback Drew Allar and the running back combo of Nick Singleton…

It’s ready. Beaver Stadium and the temporary bleachers on the upper west side of the iconic 65-year-old stadium have been tested and re-tested, and are safe and secure for No. 2-ranked Penn State’s 2025 football season-opener on Aug. 30 against Nevada. And that’s a promise, Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft said on Tuesday. Kraft,…

I credit Andy Kotelnicki — at least in part — for so many veteran Penn State football players deciding to return for one final season in 2025 in the hopes of winning a national championship. And I told him so. Coach K was the mastermind of a Penn State offense that helped guide the Nittany Lions to…

Three Nittany Lions are repeat captains for the 2025 Penn State football team — quarterback Drew Allar, center Nick Dawkins and three-time captain Dom DeLuca — as the Nittany Lions unveiled their leaders on photo day inside Beaver Stadium on Saturday. Rounding out the five co-captain contingent for the Nittany Lions, ranked No. 2 in The…

A “high point catch” in football is when a receiver leaps to catch a pass at the highest point it reaches, rather than waiting for it to come down to them — or into the arms of an opposing safety. The high point of Penn State’s practice under the hot August sun on Tuesday? When…

The time for Penn State to be elite is now here. That’s according to no less than an authority than Penn State’s defensive coordinator, Ivy League grad and PA native Jim Knowles, who is now 195 days into the job. “Our charge,” Knowles said during last Saturday’s media day presser, “is to be great now.”…

Penn State’s RB1 is really 2. Perhaps RB1A and RB1B would be more appropriate. You decide which is which. Over the past three seasons, roommates Nick Singleton and Kaytron Allen have accounted for nine out of every 10 carries by a PSU running back — 89.8%, to be exact. Here’s the individual Tale of the Tape:…

When backup quarterback Beau Pribula entered the transfer portal and departed Penn State for Missouri at the start of the Nittany Lions’ College Football Playoff run last season, he left a huge hole on the roster. His game-winning second-half performance two months earlier at Wisconsin was proof positive of that. It is up to either…

Penn State football is four days and three practices into the 2025 fall season, as James Franklin, his coaches and players met with the local media on Saturday to preview a season for which fans, media and the Nittany Lion head coach himself are expecting Very Big Things. Prior to the sessions, the media had…