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Penn State Football: 3 Nittany Lions land on ESPN’s list of Top 25 most important players for 2023

Penn State football is getting the most preseason hype from national media outlets has in a long time, and rightly so, this is a team loaded with young talent.

ESPN’s Bill Connelly put together a list of the top 25 most important players in college football for 2023 on Thursday — and impressively — three Nittany Lions made the cut.

At No. 22, is star running back Nick Singleton, who finished last season with 156 rushing attempts for 1,061 yards and 12 touchdowns.

“There are few feelings more exhilarating for a college football observer than watching a young player who (a) is doing physically spectacular things we rarely see and (b) clearly has another gear or two to find,” Connelly writes.