Penn State football is well represented on two new preseason All-American teams ahead of the 2025 season.
Penn State football is well represented on two new preseason All-American teams ahead of the 2025 season. Those headline today’s newsstand. The Athletic has three Nittany Lions on its two-team, 50-player list. Senior running back Nick Singleton and redshirt junior guard Vega Ioane are first-team selections. And, senior defensive tackle Zane Durant is a second-team honoree.
“The 6-4, 330-pound redshirt junior started all 16 games last season at left guard and was a second-team All-Big Ten selection,” The Athletic writes. “Ioane went viral last season for his bone-jarring block on UCLA defensive lineman Luke Schuermann.“
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Over at CBS Sports, its group of writers puts Singleton, Ioane, and Durant on the first team while giving redshirt-senior+ center Nick Dawkins second-team honors.
“Singleton is already rewriting the record books at Penn State, and he could finish with the school’s career rushing title this season. Singleton this offseason surpassed Saquon Barkley’s freakish record in the weight room with a squat of 665 pounds, according to The Athletic’s annual Freaks List,” Bradnon Marcello writes. “He and Kaytron Allen form the most formidable duo in the game, and if Singleton can eclipse 1,020 yards this season, he’ll take Evan Royster’s Nittany Lions’ career rushing record.”
Headlines of the day
Inside Lasch: The latest on Penn State’s 2027 quarterback search and some regional prospects to follow this fall: Snyder, BWI
Beaver Stadium construction update: New photos highlight latest progress before Penn State-Nevada: Pickel, BWI
From Late Bloomer to Breakout: Chaz Coleman impressing in Penn State preseason camp: Fitz, BWI
La Salle LB Zykee Scott reveals top schools and when he’ll be back at Penn State: Snyder, BWI
Penn State sees 2 placed on national watch list for best lineman or linebacker: Ralph, PennLive
Top Penn State observations and takeaways from practice No. 11: Two young Lions who caught my eye and more: Pickel, BWI
Quote of the day
“He’s a proven commodity. There’s not many of them in college football. And he’s done some really, really good things. And there’s areas that he needed to improve on and he’s worked hard in those areas this offseason. I think he’s going to do what he’s done every year since he stepped on campus. He has gotten better every single year. Last year, most people had him projected as a first-round draft choice and he decides to come back to school. I think he’s going to take another significant step this year, just like he has every year.”
PSU coach James Franklin on Lions QB Drew Allar.
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