Blue White Illustrated

November 2020

Penn State Sports Magazine

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rank as one of the top running backs in the country this year, along with Clem- son's Travis Etienne, Oklahoma State's Chuba Hubbard and Alabama's Najee Harris. But that apparently won't be the case, and his loss was a significant set- back for a team that had gone into the season with Big Ten title aspirations. While head coach James Franklin didn't explicitly state that Brown won't be playing football this season, he didn't give the impression that the redshirt junior is expected back in action any- time soon. "I'm a big believer that Journey's ex- periences throughout his entire life will equip him with all the necessary tools to battle this situation," Franklin said. "He's had a lot of adversity in his life in a very short period of time, in terms of his age and the things that he's been able to overcome. That's why when we first started dealing with all this, that was my conversation with him. I know he's RASHOD BATEMAN WR MINNESOTA When the Big Ten an- nounced in August that it wasn't going to play this fall, Bate- man said he was leaving for the NFL. That surely brought sighs of relief to defensive backs throughout the conference. But when league o>cials changed their mind, Bateman did, too. He's coming o= a 2019 season in which he ranked second in the Big Ten with an average of 93.8 receiving yards per game, and he averaged a gaudy 20.3 yards per catch. DAVID BELL WR PURDUE With Rondale Moore out for most of the 2019 season with an injury, Bell stepped up big-time, tying for the league lead with 86 catches. He ciency with a 181.4 rating. CHRIS OLAVE WR OHIO STATE Do we have too many pass catchers on our list? Maybe so, but it would be tough to leave o= Olave. As a sophomore, he was the top wideout on the Big Ten's best o=ense,

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