When James Franklin was hired at Virginia Tech, he immediately went to work in recruiting. Before the ink was dry from signing his contract, he was lining up visits for recruits to this past weekend's home game against Miami.
The recruits flocked to Blacksburg, and some of them were committed to Penn State, some were committed to Virginia Tech, and some de-committed from Penn State and reopened their recruiting.
One of those latter recruits is four-star running back Messiah Mickens, who committed to Franklin at Penn State but de-committed. Since reopening his recruiting, he was linked to Oklahoma, Indiana, and Ole Miss.