Final piece of Penn State football roster arrives in Happy Valley

The 2025 Penn State football roster is nearly all but complete heading into fall camp.

First reported by Blue White Illustrated’s Sean Fitz, 2025 Princeton (WV) edge rusher Daniel Jennings arrived on campus over the weekend after recently wrapping up his high school classes.

Originally committed to the class of 2026, Jennings announced his plan to forgo his senior season of high school and enroll a year early in May. The newest Nittany Lion is the top prospect out of West Virginia and the No. 33 edge in the cycle, per On3.

“Part of it, I think, is he lost his high school coach,” James Franklin said last month. “High school coach left, and basically felt like, in some ways, he was ready. I think he was the Player of the Year in West Virginia. I think he was the No. 1-ranked player in the state in West Virginia. They moved him up the year before and re-ranked him, and he was the number one player as a junior in the state.

“So once they wanted to do that, then it was ‘Okay, is there a way to make this work, to fulfill your responsibilities for graduation of high school from an NCAA perspective and from a Penn State perspective?’ And then once we realized we could check all those boxes, we said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ And I think for them, it’s like, what’s more valuable? Even worst case scenario, playing a senior year or worst case scenario, redshirting at Penn State, although he’s going to have the opportunity to come in and compete, I think they felt like, we’re going to base this decision off worst case scenario. And him being here and being in our weight program and nutrition program and getting an extra year of school started ahead of time, I just think they felt like the value of it.

“I think the other thing is, he’s not like a 205-pound defensive end. We’ve taken some kids that were 205 pounds and they had to grow into it. He’s already over 250 pounds. So I think those things played a factor into it as well. But it wasn’t us. It was something he wanted to do.”

Jennings is the final member of the 2025 class to arrive in University Park after top in-state running back Jabree Wallace-Coleman did so last week.

Penn State football kicks off the 2025 season in 59 days.

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