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Penn State defensive line coach Sean Spencer, along with Charles Huff, handled Saquon Barkley’s recruitment — and even back then, the Heisman front-runner was something special.
“It’s almost like a storybook of a person where you say, ‘I’m going to create the perfect guy to come in and play college football and the perfect guy to be a leader on your team,’ and that’s Saquon,” Spencer said on a Thursday teleconference. “I mean, he’s a tremendous character kid, and he’s always been that way.”
Barkley, then a budding prospect at Whitehall High School, was already committed to Rutgers when Penn State really started to show interest.