The Nittany Lions open spring practice with high expectations, and some questions, for the 2025 season. Penn State football coach James Franklin previewed spring practice this week, and his most revealing insight was about his head. Specifically, scalp care. Franklin shaves his six days a week at 4:45 a.m.

Penn State has finally put the pads back on after an abbreviated offseason, considering the length of the 2024 season. The Nittany Lions were out on the Holuba Hall practice fields on a cool and windy spring day.

To really judge a wide receiver before you’ve seen them at practice and running routes and creating separation and one-on-ones and making contested catch es and catch percentage and radius and those things,