Zuriah Fisher missed the entire 2024 season with an injury, but he's back healthy and his head coach and quarterback are both expecting big things from him.
Penn State’s national championship expectations largely stem from the amount of talent that returned to Happy Valley after the Nittany Lions finished just one drive away from playing Ohio State for a national championship. That doesn’t mean, however, that James Franklin and his staff don’t have any talented players to replace.
On offense, Penn State has taken a holistic approach to replicating Tyler Warren’s production after he left to become the first-round pick of the Indianapolis Colts in the spring, but it’s less clear how the Nittany Lions defense is going to account for the loss of Abdul Carter, who went even higher in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft.