Penn State portal sting factor: How bad are the losses of Ken Talley and Caziah Holmes?

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Now former Penn State defensive end Ken Talley officially joined the Nittany Lions on Aug 1, before entering the transfer portal on the 15th. (Photo: Greg Pickel/BWI)

nn State lost two players to the transfer portal over the weekend when former four-star running back in the class of 2020, Caziah Holmes, and three-star defensive end Ken Talley both left the program. Holmes carried the ball 50 times for 228 yards and two touchdowns his freshman season during the COVID-19 Pandemic. On the flip side, Talley, a class of 2022 defensive end, never took a snap for the Nittany Lions and entered the transfer portal two weeks after stepping on campus for fall camp. We'll break down the sting factor of losing both players, both long-term and in the immediate future.