Welcome back into the Lions 24-7 podcast. I am Tyler Donnevue. He is Tyler Calvaruso. We got a lot to discuss

regarding Penn State's plans for the future through the recruiting trail, through its freshman class.

We're going to dive into a lot of different names and topics with Tyler here on this episode.

If you missed our one episode that we did drop last week, I want to point you in that direction.

It was an hour and a half or so, and it was as comprehensive of a look as we have at the current Penn State Squad here in 2026 as we've been able to give you thus far in the calendar a year.

I know it's relatively early, but we had a chance to go over to Penn State facilities last

week. We went face to face with every position coach, with new coordinators, spent time in a

press conference with Matt Campbell, a ton of coverage already over at lines 247.com throughout last week,

throughout the weekend. You'll see more of that content coming your way over at the website.

But I don't think it's an episode that people want to miss.

So just, again, I want to point you in that direction.

It dropped last Thursday, our most recent episode of this podcast, and about an hour

and a half of takeaways from those

discussions with coaches about how things are going, how players are developing, how position

rooms are developing, and what kind of competitions we anticipate when spring practice

opens next month. This time around, though, as we bring in Tyler Calvaruso, and as I said,

the future more in focus not

going to be so much about these 2026 90 lines but going to be about what they're building in the

2027 2028 recruiting classes there have been some highs there have been some lows to get to

since we last had Tyler on the show and we'll finish off this segment by taking a look at some of

these 2026 freshman players, several of whom enrolled on campus already and we'll get a better

feel for who may fill some of those slots in our superlatives list that we're going to throw

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