James Franklin doesn’t believe Drew Allar injury is ‘significant’

Penn State Nittany Lions quarterback Drew Allar left the team’s win over Rutgers with an injury. After the game, head coach James Franklin explained that he doesn’t believe the injury is significant.

Allar was running with the ball when he chose not to slide. He took a shot to the right side of his body and quickly got up. The next play, he airmailed a ball on a receiver screen and took himself out of the game. Allar would not return to the game.

“As you guys know, I guess you have to ask — at least that’s what you guys tell me, but I’m not going to get into the medical stuff,” James Franklin said. “First of all, that wouldn’t be appropriate for Drew and that wouldn’t be appropriate for his family. But I don’t see this being significant. But we will see. It’s very hard for me to answer that question even if I wanted to a couple hours after it happened.”

During the game, it was hard to tell what the issue was for Drew Allar. He took a shot to his right side and could be seen flexing his throwing arm and shoulder throughout the second half on the sideline for Penn State.

In place of Drew Allar, Beau Pribula came into the game for Penn State. He carried the ball eight times and rushed for a team-high of 71 yards. However, he only threw the ball once, a dump off that he completed for nine yards. That lack of downfield attack could end up being a problem if he’s forced to start for Penn State next week.

With James Franklin vague in his response about Drew Allar’s health, the status of Penn State’s starting quarterback is up in the air for the Nittany Lions final regular season game against Michigan State.

Drew Allar believes the gap with Ohio State, Michigan is close for Penn State

After losing to Ohio State and Michigan this season, Drew Allar shared that he doesn’t think it’s that large a gap between those teams and Penn State.

“It’s close,” Allar said. “The margin of error in college football is extremely small. There were a couple times where we just stopped ourselves and killed our momentum on offense. Then, we weren’t able to sustain drives, keep our defense off the field, give them a break. It’s just the margin of error in college football.”