Penn State hosting transfer wide receiver
Penn State will host a pair of transfer wide receivers for official visits starting on Saturday. Transfer commit and former NC State wideout Devin Carter will be on campus and former Bowling Green standout Tyrone Broden confirmed his visit with BWI on Saturday morning. The Nittany Lions are still trying to get Georgia State receiver Jamari Thrash to campus this weekend as well.
The Nittany Lions offered Broden this week after he went into the Portal on New Year’s day. At 6-foot-7, 210 pounds, his official Falcons bio says he is the tallest receiver in college football. The West Bloomfield, Mich., native 74 passes for 1,199 and 12 touchdowns over four seasons with the MAC program. He has two seasons of eligibility remaining.
A seven-game starter for head coach Scot Loeffler’s team in 2022, Broden made 52 catches for 506 yards and seven touchdowns this past fall. One of his scoring receptions came in the Falcons’ Quick Lane Bowl loss to New Mexico State in December.
Penn State search for portal receiver additions continues
Penn State picked up its third transfer portal addition of the offseason and first at receiver about an hour after the team beat Utah in the Rose Bowl. It landed former North Carolina State pass-catcher Devin Carter Jan. 2. However, position coach Taylor Stubblefield and the rest of the Lions staff have been offering transferring receivers since early December. The hope is to land at least a couple receivers before the start of the 2023 season.
“We plan on taking two,” Stubblefield said in December. “We took essentially five freshmen receivers last year. You have Parker going to the Draft. You have Mitch that we’re losing. So, we got a lot of young guys. We signed one in this class intentionally. We could have had multiple guys committed that are commited to some other schools right now, we could have had them committed in the summer, [but] we just didn’t think that they were right for us.
“So we feel like our best way to satisfy what our need is, which is probably a little bit of some older guys, is possibly going to the transfer portal and seeing who could help us win.”
Penn State hosted former Miami wide receiver Romello Brinson for an official visit earlier this week. Wide receiver Devin Carter (N.C. State), defensive tackle Davon Sears (Texas State) and punter Riley Thompson (FAU) are also on campus for official visits this weekend.
