The current Penn State football player wearing 43 is redshirt sophomore tight end Trevor Baker. Baker came to Penn State in 2017, and after redshirting in his first year, he was named Academic All-Big Ten in 2018.
The Nittany Lions have had a number of successful No. 43s both on and off the field, from Josh Hull, to Adam Taliaferro, but the player that I first watched that donned the numeral was linebacker Brandon Short. Short was the leader of the linebacking corps in the late ‘90s that also included underrated but equally important Mac Morrison and some guy named Lavar Arrington.