Nicholas Singleton, the electric running back from Governor Mifflin High School, this week became just the third player from Pennsylvania to be named the Gatorade National Player of the Year since the sports drink juggernaut created the award – whose past winners include Emmitt Smith, Payton Manning and Kyler Murray – in 1986.
And yet he wasn’t even the most heralded recruit Penn State signed on Wednesday.
That unofficial honor went to the only player ranked ahead of Singleton in a rather impressive and nearly full Penn State Class of 2022 – Drew Allar, the five-star quarterback from Medina, Ohio. The signing of either player would have been a watershed moment for a program that has recruited lots of good recruits over the last few years but few great recruits, but landing both of them as part of an already solid class gives the Nittany Lions a chance to have some dynamic offenses in the coming seasons.
That is, if Penn State can get some guys to block for them.
