corps with Robinson gone. The Nittany
Lions' top returning wide receiver, Eu-
gene Lewis, 9nished with 18 catches for
234 yards and three touchdowns last
season. It would have seemed crazy to
predict that he and redshirt freshman
DaeSean Hamilton would combine for 19
catches for 338 yards and a touchdown
against UCF.
But that's just what happened. Hamil-
ton set a freshman single-game receiv-
ing record with 11 catches for 165 yards,
while Lewis had eight catches for 173
yards.
It is not realistic to expect those two
players to produce numbers like that on
a weekly basis. The UCF game might go
down as a once-in-a-career combined
performance. But the game does indi-
cate that anyone, Allen Robinson in-
cluded, can be replaced.
"We knew we had playmakers out-
side," Hackenberg said following the
game. "You just haven't seen them yet,
or a lot of them yet."
3. The chance for improvement on
the oensive line. It's true that Penn
State's running game produced only 57
yards on 28 carries and that the Nittany
Lions weren't as balanced as Franklin
wanted them to be against UCF. But for
the most part, a beat-up o;ensive line
that only goes seven- or eight-deep per-
formed better than preseason practice
reports led many to believe.
Despite being one-dimensional on of-
fense, Penn State's o;ensive line did a
better-than-expected job of protecting
Hackenberg. UCF recorded only two
sacks, and in many instances Hacken-
berg had more than three seconds to de-
liver the football.
Still, it was far from a perfect perform-
ance on the o;ensive line's part. If im-
provement doesn't take place, particu-
larly with the rushing attack, an eight-
win season will be di
