Transferring Bowling Green receiver Tyrone Broden claims Penn State offer
The Penn State football has already added one receiver via the transfer portal this offseason. It now has a new player in it to target.
Former Bowling Green receiver Tyrone Broden announced on social media Wednesday that the Nittany Lions have extended an offer. 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. The receiver then entered the transfer portal on New Year’s Day.
“I would like to thank Bowling Green for the great memories l’ve had, and the great bonds that I have made,” Broden wrote in a statement. “I would also like to thank Coach Loeffer and [Bowling Green receivers] Coach [Erik] Campbell for believing in me and giving me an opportunity to make my childhood dreams come true.
“With that being said, I will be entering the transfer portal with 2 years of eligibility remaining.”
The early competition for Penn State to land Broden includes Pitt, Syracuse, Washington State, Colorado, West Virginia, Arkansas, Houston, and Texas A&M, among others.
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.”
