ALTOONA, Pa. -- The best thing James Franklin ever did at Penn State was hire Joe Moorhead as offensive coordinator in 2016. I'm a huge believer that the Nittany Lions never would have won the Big Ten title that year or re-emerged as a national power well ahead of schedule if not for Moorhead's innovative offense.
That 2016 team was loaded with tremendous talent -- Saquon Barkley, Chris Godwin, Mike Gesicki, Trace McSorley -- and while those guys surely helped make Moorhead's system, his system also helped make them stars.