Neither Carnell Tate nor Caleb Downs will be wearing the blue and white, though.Whatever "insiders" are reporting that
Nobody that is reporting "inside" info (LJHeisman poster, as an example) ever said Tate or Downs were entering the portal and coming to Penn State.
From what I remember, he said:
-Downs was considering entering and would likely be heading south if he did.
-Tate was getting all kinds of offers, but Buckeyes would probably up his NIL to retain him
Now what he did write was that Knowles was seriously considering PSU. No Buckeyes posters ever came out and agreed and the majority still thought Oklahoma due to the fiancé angle. Heck, yall can't even get your story straight about what Knowles defense is supposed to be, what LJ wanted, what Day did, etc between "Knowles aggressive play killed us in '22" to "Day made Knowles be more aggressive after the Oregon loss".
At the end of the day, we bought your DC, but it doesn't guarantee a thing for us. We still are losing Carter, King, and Reed to the NFL draft. We haven't brought in a Downs-type of defensive player through the portal, yet, either (likely won't unless one enters in the spring as one didn't exist in the previous portal session). While we are returning some key pieces to the defense, this isn't nowhere near the level of what OSU returned for '24.