It is sometimes easy to forget that there are young men inside of those white helmets that run around on the football field representing Penn State. We ask those young men to perform at a high level once they set their feet on the lush green grass inside of Beaver Stadium and sometimes criticize their play when it isn’t as we would expect it to be.
We should remember that the journey for the players is long, full of sacrifice and hard work, before they ever get a chance to play on Saturdays. Two current Penn State starting linebackers have waited a season for their chance to play by redshirting once they got to campus.