Penn State spring practice begins with injury updates; inside two new Crystal Ball commitment predictions
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Penn State football action has returned to the practice field and this Lions247 Podcast features fresh feedback from head coach Matt Campbell, including injury updates. Plus, we dive into the details regarding two recent Crystal Ball commitment predictions for the Nittany Lions' next recruiting class.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back into the Lions 24-7 podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to our Penn State football spring practice coverage. |
| 0:10.0 | Practice number one in the books for the Nittany Lions on a Tuesday morning. |
| 0:14.0 | We will be on the field for practice number two on Thursday. |
| 0:17.0 | Excited to get a long look at a very different team than the last one we encountered on the field in December. |
| 0:23.7 | We are fresh out of a press conference in Beaver Stadium with head coach Matt Campbell, |
| 0:28.3 | who had just conducted his first ever Netany Lions practice. |
| 0:31.8 | He is Daniel Gallen. |
| 0:33.0 | I am Tyler Donahue a little bit later. |
| 0:35.4 | You will hear from our colleague and recruiting insider Tyler Calveruso. |
| 0:39.0 | He'll break down two new crystal ball commitment predictions for Penn State to add to their next recruiting class, both of them of the four-star variety. |
| 0:48.1 | He'll join us a little bit later. |
| 0:49.3 | We'll also get into some recruiting ramifications of spring ball opening up as we're going to see a lot of prospects |
| 0:54.5 | and targets coming to campus in the coming weeks starting today. So stick around for that. |
| 1:00.3 | But first things first, as I said, we just spent time in Beaver Stadium with Matt Campbell, |
| 1:04.6 | our first time chatting with him in a Q&A session since early February. So naturally, |
| 1:09.5 | a lot to catch up on. |
| 1:15.5 | And Daniel, we're going to get into it to start on some injury-related updates because we're always talking about player availability. |
| 1:17.7 | Who's going to accomplish what on the field this spring? |
| 1:20.2 | And some of those names have been familiar to you here on the podcast. |
| 1:23.7 | And we're going to kind of assess where things stand, starting with the new QB1 in town, a three-year starter for Iowa State quarterback Rocco Beck. Underwent shoulder |
| 1:33.1 | surgery during the offseason. We spoke with him in February. He kind of gave us a bit of a |
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