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When James Franklin took over at Penn State prior to the start of the 2014 season, Big Ten media had plenty to say about the ...
The Nittany Lions are considered a Big Ten-title contender as well as a national championship candidate. As the center on the ...
Yes, there is something different about Penn State’s offensive line. James Franklin and position coach Phil Trautwein have toiled the last several years to recruit and develop some of the most ...
In a college football world full of masterminds drawing up new and creative schemes to propel high-powered offenses, sometimes it comes down to the most basic of hard-nosed, old-school plays ...
College football’s award watch list season kicked off on Monday with a look at players who could win the sport’s Player of ...
The Penn State trio of Drew Allar, Zakee Wheatley and Nick Dawkins accompanied James Franklin to Las Vegas last week.
Nick Dawkins still looks to his father nearly a decade after he left. He still watches his highlights on YouTube, still wonders what he would say to him during his toughest and grandest moments ...
Nick Dawkins said his father “wasn’t really the biggest fan of me playing football,” though he watched proudly nonetheless. This is Nick’s game. And he wants to extract everything out of it.
Nick Dawkins just didn’t feel right not wearing a No. 53 football jersey. When Penn State fulfilled his request before last season and allowed him to wear his father’s number again, he was ...
— Nick Dawkins (@TheNickDawkins) May 28, 2022. Shortly before Nick Dawkins enrolled at Penn State in 2020, he joined the Lions247 Podcast and explained what his father meant to him.
Nick Dawkins always keeps his word. He says he was raised that way. Since committing to Penn State in 2019, Dawkins has been a backup offensive lineman and special teams starter.
— Nick Dawkins (@TheNickDawkins) January 26, 2023. Dawkins (6-4, 315 pounds) just completed his third season at Penn State, though he was injured for much of it.