ALTOONA, Pa. -- There's a big difference between getting some good players out of the transfer portal and needing to get good players in order to fill big vacancies.
It was bound to happen sooner or later, and it wound up being sooner than most would have expected that Penn State would be in dire need of getting multiple players out of the portal to make up for major shortcomings in one spot.
When Parker Washington decided last week to declare for the NFL draft, it cost the Nittany Lions their No.