With just one verbal commitment, from three-star State College Area corner Keaton Ellis, Penn State’s Class of 2019 sits at No. 29 in the 247Sports’ Composite rankings.
Yes, that’s irrelevant. More importantly, the Lions are on the board. More meaningful than that, their first pledge, generally the leader of the class, lives just a football’s toss away from Beaver Stadium, meaning that for the next year and a half, he can be on campus almost every single time a top target comes to campus.
That’s invaluable.
"Penn State checked all the boxes for me," Ellis told PennLive after committing.