Top takeaways from our first look at Penn State spring football practice

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🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Lions247's coverage team spent more than an hour at the most recent Penn State football spring practice. We bring many observations to this podcast episode, including a key update at quarterback, early impressions of new Nittany Lions and position developments across the field.

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0:00.0	Welcome back into the Lions 24-7 podcast.
0:06.7	I am Tyler Donahue.
0:07.9	They are Tyler Calderuso and Daniel Gallen.
0:10.3	And yesterday on Thursday, we spent some time together, more than an hour of time together,
0:15.3	on the Penn State practice field in Huluba Hall.
0:18.1	Got a chance to get eyes on the new look, Nittany Lions, four dozen new
0:22.5	players, plenty of new coaching staff members across the field, a new era underway. At the end of the
0:27.9	day, though, it's football practice, and we know what to look for. We put together a lot of content
0:32.7	and coverage for you over at Lyons 247.com. Throughout the day on Thursday, Daniel had a practice notebook up on
0:39.1	defense. I did a position by position breakdown of offensive observations. Tyler had a breakdown of
0:45.3	some newcomers on the field that stood out to him. We had a photo gallery from Grace Brennan,
0:49.7	more than six minutes of practice highlight video for Mark Brennan. So we are full steam ahead here as spring practice.
0:57.0	Week one continues in Happy Valley.
1:00.0	We're recording here on a Friday morning.
1:01.7	Going to gather some thoughts here from the field for you.
1:04.5	First things, first guys, it was good to spend time on the field with you both.
1:08.7	After months and months of hypotheticals and what is
1:12.9	this team going to look like and how does this position room stack up and all that.
1:16.1	And Daniel, you and I have covered this team now together going back to 2022.
1:20.7	I don't know how many practices we've been on the field for, but this was probably the longest
1:25.2	time we spent on the field together, this open look at Matt Campbell's squad.
1:29.6	We hope to do it again a little bit later in the spring practice.
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