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FB Recruiting Penn State lands Troy University Transfer WR Devonte Ross

With the addition of Ross, that now brings Penn State up to 138 total players for the 2025 roster.

The new rules state that 105 is the new max and the roster needs to be cut down to 105 by kickoff 2025.

 
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With the addition of Ross, that now brings Penn State up to 138 total players for the 2025 roster.

The new rules state that 105 is the new max and the roster needs to be cut down to 105 by kickoff 2025.

As I’ve said a few times, we’re going to see at least a dozen players leave via the portal. Probably four or five of them will be wide receivers, and unfortunately, another dozen will be the walk-ons.
 
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With the addition of Ross, that now brings Penn State up to 138 total players for the 2025 roster.

The new rules state that 105 is the new max and the roster needs to be cut down to 105 by kickoff 2025.

It would be tough to remember all those names!
 
No kidding. My post is in reference to walk on's not being part of the 105 due to expansion of scholarships, and those walk on decisions being the flexibility tha allows the staff to go after whoever they need now within the portal to address needs.....
Between walk-on’s and specialists such as punters kickers and long snappers, that’s at least two dozen kids.

My guess is that all of the walk-ons save for a few will be gone, and I do not believe that we will carry nearly as manyspecialists, no need for four kickers anymore.

I don’t believe that the wide receiver room will be as big as it has recently as well, going to need to keep other big bodies so no more having 12+ scholarship wide receivers.
 
Between walk-on’s and specialists such as punters kickers and long snappers, that’s at least two dozen kids.

My guess is that all of the walk-ons save for a few will be gone, and I do not believe that we will carry nearly as manyspecialists, no need for four kickers anymore.

I don’t believe that the wide receiver room will be as big as it has recently as well, going to need to keep other big bodies so no more having 12+ scholarship wide receivers.
Gotta keep a couple ST kids though
They'll run off who they want to run off. Not a big deal.
 
Between walk-on’s and specialists such as punters kickers and long snappers, that’s at least two dozen kids.

My guess is that all of the walk-ons save for a few will be gone, and I do not believe that we will carry nearly as manyspecialists, no need for four kickers anymore.

I don’t believe that the wide receiver room will be as big as it has recently as well, going to need to keep other big bodies so no more having 12+ scholarship wide receivers.
A team can't afford not to have backup kickers.

If PSU had 12+ scholarship WR's with a 85 scholarship limit they will more than likely have at least that amount with a 105 limit.

Bottom line is that in going from 85 scholarships to potentially 105 there are 20 more scholarships that can be given out. Those 20 will be spread out and possibly some bias towards positions that are harder to correlate high outcome as players develop (OL) and positions where PSU has a good number of players but where recent poor evaluations and/or sub par recruiting success have resulted in poor performance on the field (WR). It also makes sense to use an extra scholarship on positions where injuries can take out a critical player and disproportionately impact team performance such as QB and RB but with the transfer environment those positions may have to be over recruited yearly. Should be interesting to see how Franklin approaches this new structure.
 
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A team can't afford not to have backup kickers.

If PSU had 12+ scholarship WR's with a 85 scholarship limit they will more than likely have at least that amount with a 105 limit.
Sure, they’ll have a back up kicker and a backup punter, but they won’t have 10 roster spots for three specialist positions. My guess is that there will be two long snappers two punters and probably three kickers.

I believe they have 12 scholarship wide receivers right now, that’s probably the number that they’ll stay with considering wide receivers are going to cost more money through NIL and we have an exceptionally talented group of tight ends.

Roughly about 20 of the roster spots will be taken up by OL, 12 wr, 6 te, 6 rb, 4 qb, 7 specialists, 16DL, 10 lb, and 16 db. That leaves 8 spots to add however coach deems necessary.
 
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