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Green, Yellow, Red: Projecting Which Freshmen Won’t Be Redshirted

Penn State signed an uber-talented recruiting class last winter, and it will now see the fruits of its labor as a handful of those signees will make their debuts this fall. In the past, it was much easier to categorize freshmen into three tiers:

  • Green: likely to play
  • Yellow: on the fence
  • Red: unlikely to play

But with the NCAA’s decision last year to allow freshmen to play four games before burning their redshirt, it’s made the lines between those tiers a bit blurry. Still, we’ll give it our best shot and project what is in store for Penn State’s 2019 recruiting class this fall in Happy Valley.