PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) – Penn State and West Virginia announced their recruiting classes on Wednesday. Nittany Lions ranked 28th by Rivals.com and 21st by 247Sports.com. Mountaineers ranked 37th by 247Sports.com and 42nd by Rivals.com.
Penn State’s 15-person class highlighted by five players ranked as four-star recruits. The highest is Maryland 6’6”, 300 pound tackle Landon Tengwall, Malvern wide receiver Lonnie White, a pair of defensive backs from Detroit and a safety from Maryland.
Nittany Lions also got another North Allegheny player, tight end Khalil Dinkins, the son of a Pitt star. Dinkins is already 6’3”, 220 pounds and had offers from Pitt, Michigan and others.
James Franklin and his staff got as many players from Michigan, including 4 of their top 7, as they did from Pennsylvania. They are split down the middle with seven defensive and seven offensive players and a specialist.
Seven players will enroll early including Ottawa quarterback Christian Veilleux, who had offers from Clemson, Pitt, Michigan, UCLA and others.
West Virginia signed 16 players with a couple of four-stars, their top player also an offensive tackle. Wyatt Milum from Huntington, WV had offers from basically everyone including Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia just to name a few. Kaden Prather, a wide receiver from Maryland is the other four-star and had similar schools looking at him.
No WPIAL players for the Mountaineers this year, but five from Ohio, three from Florida and two from Scandinavia—tight end Victor Wikstrom from Sweden and defensive end Edward Vesterinen from Finland.