The youth in the NFL is really taking flight going into the 2022 season, and there are some notable Penn State players who are helping to shape the future of the league. It didn’t take long for former linebacker Micah Parsons to leave his mark, of course. The rookie for the Dallas Cowboys easily walked away with the NFL’s defensive rookie of the year award and had some even stumping for him to win the NFL’s defensive player of the year honor.
So it should come as no surprise that Parsons locked down a spot on a list of the NFL’s top players under the age of 25 in a recent list organized by CBS Sports. Parsons was the only player under 25 to make the top 25 cut for CBS Sports, but a handful of other former Nittany Lions were listed as an honorable mention or on the radar for a similar list a year from now. At the same time, a few other notable Penn State greats just aged out of the range for this list.
Here are the former Penn State players who appear in the CBS Sports list of the NFL’s top players under 25 for the 2022 season, and those who just missed the cut for one reason or another. One thing to keep in mind is CBS Sports chose not to include any rookies entering the NFL in 2022, thus eliminating players like wide receiver Jahan Dotson and safety Jaquan Brisker, for example.
No. 16: Micah Parsons
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Parsons is the only former Nittany Lion to appear in the top 25 players under 25 according to CBS Sports, and he does so at only No. 16. Only four other defensive players come in ahead of him though with Nick Bosa (No. 4), Jaire Alexander (No. 9), Roquan Smith (No. 13), and Chase Young (No. 14) managing to come in ahead of the former Penn State linebacker.
We’ll see if Parsons can work his way up this list in the next year. At just 22 years of age, Parsons is the youngest defensive player in this ranking. If Parsons turns in as dominant a 2022 season as we saw in 2021, Parsons could make a big…
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