SALT LAKE CITY — Utah freshman receiver Solomon Enis was supposed to go to Penn State.
He was a legacy recruit, following in the footsteps of his biological father, Curtis Enis, who played running back with the Nittany Lions before being selected fifth overall in the first round of the 1998 NFL draft. Football is in his blood, and Penn State was his natural landing spot.
Nearly every one of the other 13 big-name programs that gave Solomon Enis a scholarship offer — programs like Arizona, Arizona State, Georgia, Oregon, Tennessee and UCLA — failed to seriously pursue the four-star recruit from North Canyon High School because there was no question as to where he was going to play collegiate ball.