Penn State’s roster for the 2022 season has a good mix of returning veterans and experience and fresh new faces expected to jump in and contribute this fall. Nittany Lions Wire will be taking a look at 25 of the most important players on the roster for the 2022 season all throughout the month of July by profiling one player each day.
James Franklin has built a complete team at Penn State, not many programs can say that. What he and his staff do best is develop talent, yeah it is fun to get 5-star recruits but they get coached the same as walk-ons. Thanks to that approach we have seen a major influx of talent to the NFL and across the entire roster.
After struggling to run the football in 2021, Penn State is hoping to get things back in the right direction when keeping the ball on the ground. One of the key returning players for the Nittany Lions in 2022 is running back Keyvone Lee, who started coming on late in the year with a couple of encouraging performances. Lee won’t be saddled with lifting the running game alone in 2022 thanks to some great recruiting at the position in the Class of 2022, but Lee is the top option returning with some experience in the offense to rely on.
2021 in Review
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Penn State entered the 2021 season with a good amount of optimism about a potential three-headed monster at running back. The Nittany Lions were the only school in the country with three players named to the preseason Doak Walker Award watch list prior to the start of the 2021 season. Keyvone Lee was one of those three running backs appearing on the watch list for the nation’s top running back award; Noah Cain and John Lovett were the other two Penn State running backs on the watch list. But as the 2021 season unfolded, Penn State’s inability to get much traction on the ground was an unfortunate trend few saw coming. Despite having three Doak Walker Award watch list players, Penn State failed to have a…
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