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‘Captain of the ship’: Reliving Trace McSorley’s career-defining games as Senior Day approaches

Trace McSorley remembers running out of the south end-zone tunnel at Beaver Stadium on Sept. 6, 2014. He was a true freshman, redshirting and serving as Christian Hackenberg’s unused backup. He was a relative nobody to Nittany Lion fans, an undersized three-star recruit few knew anything about.

Now, as he prepares for Saturday’s Senior Day, it’s hard for McSorley to fathom how much time has passed and how much has happened since that moment.

“I’ve been here for so long,” McSorley said Tuesday with a smile. “I feel like this is never going to end.”

And yet, here we are.