Despite not meeting some expectations during the 2018 season, Trace McSorley will leave Penn State as a legend and one of the best players ever in school history. He didn’t end up on the Heisman Trophy ballot at the end of the year, and he didn’t lead the Nittany Lions to a College Football Playoff berth, but McSorley proved to be a winner during his three seasons in Happy Valley and will be a fixture in the Penn State record books.
Not a highly recruited player out of high school, McSorley was planning on attending Vanderbilt, but followed James Franklin to Happy Valley when he became head coach of the Nittany Lions.