Penn State flips four-star linebacker into 2025 recruiting class; 1-on-1 with Lions DT Dvon J-Thomas

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Penn State football made a mid-week splash on the recruiting trail, flipping four-star linebacker Cameron Smith from a Duke commitment. We break down the St. Joe's Prep (Philadelphia) standout and his impact on the 2025 class, along with other potential flip candidates. Then Nittany Lions senior defensive tackle Dvon J-Thomas joins us to talk preseason camp. Follow the team on X: @Lions247 @TDsTake @danieljtgallen @tyler_calvaruso @MarkXBrennan. Follow or subscribe to the Lions247 Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. And watch every episode on YouTube. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.6	Welcome back into the Alliance 24-7 podcast. Happy to be with you as we continue to work our way through early August. We will hear from one of Penn State's veteran players six-year senior defensive tackle. Devon J Thomas recently had that name change from Devon Ellies.
0:19.8	Stand out down the stretch last year in his fifth year on campus,
0:23.6	earned the starting job as things went on,
0:26.0	finished on a high note, and he's looking to build off of that.
0:28.9	Not only will we talk to Devon about what he's expecting
0:31.6	from his sixth year.
0:32.5	We'll talk about that name change a little bit.
0:35.0	And we will break down what he's seen around him
0:38.6	on the Penn State practice field regarding rising talent,
0:42.0	those who are going to step up in different positions and what he thinks generally about this Penn State football squad as they worked their way towards preseason camp.
0:50.0	We had a chance to sit down with him one on one out in Indianapolis during Big Ten Media
0:54.4	days. So if you didn't catch that on the site, then great opportunity to do that here on the
0:58.5	podcast. There'll be a few more veteran one-on-one conversations you'll hear during the month of August as we work our way toward that August 31st kickoff at West Virginia, but we've got news to get to and that is a key commitment flip for the Penn and Nettie Lions on the
1:13.2	recruiting trail in the 2025 class Cameron Smith.
1:16.4	He was a key target earlier in the cycle.
1:19.0	Now he is a Penn State commitment, spent significant time,
1:22.6	pledged to the Duke Blue Devils with Manny Diaz.
1:25.7	And we discussed this quite a bit
1:27.3	on our last episode of the podcast
1:29.4	with Tyler Calverousso about this being a possibility
1:32.2	following a recent visit to campus.
1:34.1	We're going to break into that right now with Tyler.
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