Franklin, Brown, Clifford and Mustipher to Represent Penn State at 2022 Big Ten Football Media Days

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Head coach James Franklin, senior safety Ji’Ayir Brown, redshirt senior quarterback Sean Clifford and senior defensive tackle PJ Mustipher will represent Penn State at the 50th Annual Big Ten Kickoff in Indianapolis, Wednesday, July 27.
 
Franklin, a 27-year football coaching veteran, was appointed Penn State’s 16th head football coach on January 11, 2014 and enters his 12th season as a collegiate head coach. Franklin’s career head coaching record is 91-49 and is one of only five active FBS coaches to lead his team to a bowl game in each of his first nine seasons as a head coach.
 
Under Franklin’s direction, Penn State has finished in the top 12 of the final College Football Playoff rankings in four of the last six seasons, has earned berths in three New Year’s Six bowl games with two wins and won the 2016 Big Ten Championship. Franklin has guided the Nittany Lions to an 86 percent graduation success rate, a perfect single-year 1,000 APR for the 2018-19 school year and record-breaking performances in the classroom.
 
Ji’Ayir Brown · Sr. · S · 5-11 · 208 · Trenton, N.J. · Trenton Central

• Tied for the nation’s lead in interceptions (6) in 2021.
• Named a third team All-Big Ten honoree by the coaches and honorable mention by the media.
• Posted 73 tackles (61 solo) to go along with six interceptions, five pass breakups, two fumble recoveries, one forced fumble and a tackle for loss.
• Had a hand in eight takeaways (six interceptions, two fumble recoveries).
• Recorded 112 return yards on the six interceptions.
• The six picks were the most by a Penn State player since Anthony Scirrotto also had six in 2006.
• Became the first Nittany Lion with six interceptions and two fumble recoveries in a season since Alan Zemaitis in 2005 (six interceptions, two fumble recoveries).
• Tallied an 87-yard interception return for a touchdown at Maryland (11/6), the fifth-longest interception return in school history.
• Tallied two interceptions vs. Arkansas in the Outback Bowl (1/1), tying a Penn State bowl record.

 
Sean Clifford · R-Sr. · QB · 6-2 · 212 · Cincinnati, Ohio · Saint Xavier

• Has played in 38 career games, making 33 starts.
• Is one of three Penn State players to reach 8,000 yards of total offense and one of…