Penn State's top 10 offensive prospects heading into the spring
Who are Penn State's most important offensive prospects as we turn the page to spring? We countdown the list below.
One of the themes of Penn State’s recruiting efforts the past two years is that they haven’t been able to land the true blue-chip players that every major school covets. Just in the state of Pennsylvania alone, a few really good players have gotten away. I'm not going to name them. You know the list already.
To be fair, Penn State has done well in other regions like Michigan this past year and Virginia in previous years to help make up the difference, but James Franklin would be the first to tell you that the roster could always use more playmakers, especially those top 100 national prospects that schools like Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State have been landing with regularity of late.
Despite no visits for a year now, Franklin and his staff couldn’t have asked for a better start in the Class of 2022. All seven of Penn State’s committed players currently hold a four-star rating, three of whom rank in the Rivals250. Five of those seven players will surely play on offense, while Mehki Flowers could play either wide receiver or safety.
But if this year’s class, which ranks eighth nationally now, is going to reach the levels of the 2018 class, which finished fifth, the Nittany Lion coaching staff will have to land at least a few of the players below. The NCAA once again extended the dead period until June 1, so visits won’t be taking place now until the summer, but there’s reason to believe that’ll be the final time it's extended, making June and July one of the most important periods in recent memory for Franklin and his staff.
After speaking with sources close to the program, these are the 10 most important offensive prospects for the Nittany Lions, in order, as we head into the spring.
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10) Ryan Brubaker
Brubaker just picked up an offer from Phil Trautwein last week. Although it came a bit later than many would expect for a player who grew up outside of Reading, Pa., he’s still an in-state prospect who now holds an offer. Penn State is oftentimes selective when it comes to Keystone State prospects. Now that the offer has come, he needs to be on this list. Multiple sources stressed that.
Brubaker, who’s also the son of former PSU offensive lineman Jeff Brubaker, is very familiar with the program, although he’s never actually attended a true regular season game in Beaver Stadium. He has been to a few spring games, however. Brubaker has only seen one school before, visiting Liberty last summer, and even that was a self-guided tour, so there’s a long way to go here. Now that he has an offer, we expect Franklin and his staff to be in the mix until the very end.
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