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Nation's No. 1 RB decommits from Penn State and it's all on James Franklin

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Once it was announced that Penn State football had decided to part ways with James Franklin, you knew it was going to have a brutal impact with recruiting. Well, several Nittany Lions commits have decided they won't be Penn State-bound after all. The list includes Kemon Spell.

Ranked five stars and the No. 1 running back in the country for the 2027 class, Spell said not long ago that he was no longer '100 percent' committed to the program. However, he just told On3's Hayes Fawcett that following the Franklin update coming on Sunday, he has made the call to decommit from the Big Ten side:

BREAKING: Five-Star RB Kemon Spell has Decommitted from Penn State, he tells me for @rivals

He’s ranked as the No.