No present Penn State receiver owns 1,000 profession receiving yards, and solely redshirt junior Harrison Wallace III has reached 300 yards in a Nittany Lions uniform. Naturally, the place has drawn consideration as a query mark this preseason, and freshman Tyseer Denmark is asserting himself as a possible reply by means of seven practices.
“Tyseer has actually flashed and carried out some very nice issues,” Penn State head coach James Franklin stated on Thursday night time in Holuba Corridor. “That is very, very completely different, so there’s nonetheless an adjustment interval happening. However there is a fairly important buzz in this system about him.”
That “buzz” word echoes what Franklin informed reporters two weeks in the past in Indianapolis at Large Ten Media Days. However listening to it now, with Denmark’s on-field pattern measurement rising and a season-opening go to to West Virginia nearing, strikes a distinct tone.
“It isn’t one factor,” Franklin stated. “It is route working, it is being aggressive, it is his confidence together with his fingers in catching the ball, it is his potential to retain info. He is simply doing sufficient good issues that you simply assume he’ll have an opportunity.”
Denmark’s ardour for the sport has routinely come up in conversations amongst these inside program services, together with a Saturday dialogue with receivers coach Marques Hagans.
“One factor I do know is he loves soccer,” Hagans stated. “He would not thoughts being coached. He would not thoughts being pushed. I believe he loves being a teammate as properly. That is one factor that stands out to me — he loves being a teammate.”
Final weekend, redshirt sophomore receiver Mehki Flowers referred to as Denmark an “elite” expertise on the place and famous, “he could make strikes in open area when he is bought the ball”.
That shiftiness has stood out to redshirt sophomore receiver Kaden Saunders for the reason that 5-foot-10, 177-pound Denmark enrolled in June, contemporary off incomes MVP honors on the Large 33 Recreation.
“We noticed that once we would run routes in the summertime with the quarterbacks,” Saunders stated on Thursday night time. “He is actual twitchy and sudden, in order that makes him actually arduous to protect.”
Denmark accomplished the Nittany Lions’ freshman receivers class together with his arrival, following Josiah Brown (January enrollee) and Peter Gonzalez (Could enrollee) to campus. He beforehand starred for Roman Catholic then Imhotep Institute in Philadelphia, and he was thought-about a top-10 Pennsylvania expertise inside 247Sports’ 2024 recruit rankings.
“Tyseer is a man that we bought to know very well early on,” Penn State head coach James Franklin stated on Nationwide Signing Day. “[He] was a high-profile man within the state. We had been capable of consider them on movie but additionally in 7-on-7, stay in camp, and simply supreme confidence, ball expertise, change of path. It was apparent very early on that we needed him and felt like he had an opportunity to be type of a difference-maker for us on this class.”
Clearly a coveted goal in State Faculty, Denmark drifted away from Joyful Valley as his recruitment progressed and ultimately dedicated to Oregon in November 2022. That junior-season pledge didn’t final. Penn State flipped his dedication in June 2023 following a visit to campus.
It is a recruiting victory that would rapidly pay dividends for PSU.
“He is been on prime of all his installs and stuff,” Saunders stated. “You possibly can inform he cares loads concerning the sport and he needs to do something to assist the crew. He has that mindset to him that no one can guard him, and that helps loads being a receiver. Getting reps in observe helps his confidence loads.”
Ohio State switch Julian Fleming, a former five-star prospect who is definitely Penn State’s most skilled receiver, lately mirrored on his personal transition when requested about Denmark’s early efforts.
“Popping out of highschool, it is actually arduous with all the expectations,” Fleming stated. “Everybody thinks you are going to go there and be that man. However on the identical time, you need to study a complete new offense, you need to understand you are not taking part in in opposition to 16, 17, 18 12 months olds anymore. You are taking part in in opposition to 19, 20, 21, 22. There is a large leap and there is positively a improvement side that is going to should occur.”
“He has a ton of potential,” Fleming continued. “He’ll be an awesome man within the room. He is positively going to play a job.”
It has been for the reason that COVID-shortened 2020 season that Penn State final utilized a freshman receiver with high-volume frequency. The truth is, the Nittany Lions did it twice that 12 months whereas finally beginning KeAndre Lambert-Smith and Parker Washington. Eventual first-round NFL draft decide Jahan Dotson was one other Yr 1 contributor in 2018.
There may be nonetheless a lot to show on the observe discipline and past, however Denmark is trending towards incomes an influence position at a place of nice significance to Penn State’s playoff ambitions.
“He looks as if a pure match for the slot place due to his suddenness and twitchiness. That helps loads being in a slot,” Saunders stated. “Clearly he isn’t the tallest, however he’ll go up and make performs as properly.”
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