On Monday, Penn State’s James Franklin stood at a podium inside the Marriott on North Michigan Avenue and gushed over his offensive line. Eerily, 363 days prior, at a podium inside the McCormick Place convention center five miles away, Franklin did the same thing.
Anyone watching the head coach’s press conference earlier this week had a serious case of deja vu. At back-to-back Big Ten media days, Franklin expressed unbridled excitement about his offensive line, a unit that hindered the Nittany Lions in 2014, 2015 and parts of 2016.
On July 25, 2017, Franklin said the group had “a chance to be one of the better offensive lines in the Big Ten.