3 catches, 23 yards.
1 catch, 13 yards.
1 catch, 6 yards.
Those were the stat lines for the top three receivers that the Nittany Lions trotted out against the Fighting Illini: Keandre Lambert-Smith, Dante Cephas, and Malik McClain, respectively.
The Fighting Illini did to the Lions this past Saturday exactly what they did in 2021: stack the box, stop the run game, play a single high safety, and dare the passing game to beat you.
And it mostly worked.
Penn State sleep walked to a 30-13 game (30-7 before the starters came out), on a day where the offense was the definition of dysfunctional.