Talent and Experience of Penn State Over the Years

I just spent nearly an hour trying to figure out a good lede for this, but I couldn’t come up with anything. So let’s make this as basic as possible — this article goes through Penn State’s starting units the past three seasons (2016, 2017, and 2018) while also projecting onto 2019. It covers three things:

1. Rating — the 247Sports Composite recruit ranking of each starter
2. Year — what year the player is/was in the program (true freshman=1, redshirt senior=5)
3. Experience — how many years the player has/had been a starter

That last one is the toughest to define because there’s some grey areas for each year.