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BWI Live: Decision Day looming for a top Penn State target

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Penn State defensive tackle Alex Haskell will commit to a college team on Friday, May 9. (Photo: Ryan Snyder/BWI)

The Penn State football team secured a linebacker for 2025 earlier this week but the team’s roster building efforts are never over. The program is switching into recruiting mode after the conclusion of spring football last week. On today’s BWI Live Recruiting Show, we’ll discuss the latest news, including Penn State’s place in several final school cutdowns for top targets, an RPM for tomorrow, coaches on the road, and more!

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Penn State recruiting news

We’ll start off the show discussing Penn State’s addition of Amare Campbell on Tuesday. Sean Fitz wrote a comprehensive breakdown of Campbell’s journey from North Carolina to the Nittany Lions and why he was such a quick take for the team.

From there, we’ll shift to the latest recruiting news. One of Penn State’s top defensive targets, defensive lineman Alex Haskell, will make his college decision on Friday. Reporter Ryan Snyder has put in his pick for where he thinks Haskell will choose, which we’ll discuss on today’s show.

The team also made the final cutdown for several top targets in the 2026 cycle this week. We’ll discuss those names and why the lists don’t matter as much as another list Penn State needs to be on for those players.

Finally, we’ll end this section of the show by discussing where coaches have visited during the month of May. It’s a contact period for the staff, meaning they can go out and visit players across the country and continue the relationship-building efforts to secure talent for the next chapter. Where have they been so far? Snyder and Fitz will outline their stops.

Top contenders

Lastly, we’ll end the show by looking at some of the team’s top targets and discussing the recruiting battles that Penn State is facing to land those players. Who are the top contenders for players like Luke Wafle, Joey O’Brien, and Khary Adams? We’ll preview some of the top official visits coming up this and next month in our Top Contenders segment to end the show. Join us to hear which schools pop up the most in Penn State’s battle to land a top ten recruiting class for 2026.

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