Penn State is hours away from welcoming fans back to Beaver Stadium for this season’s home opener. After putting on an impressive showing on the road at West Virginia last week, the Nittany Lions look to improve to 2-0 with ease as they host Bowling Green on Saturday afternoon for an early kickoff.
Penn State will be without a handful of players available according to this week’s updated player availability report, which was just released by the Big Ten football office, per conference policy.
The following players have been ruled out for Penn State in week 2:
- Jaxon Smolik
- Mylachi Williams
- [autotag]Ta’Mere Robinson[/autotag]
- Kari Jackson
- Keon Wylie
- Zuriah Fisher
- Mason Robinson
- Peter Gonzalez
- [autotag]Andrew Rappleyea[/autotag]
- Sam Siafa
- Liam Andrews
- De’Andre Cook
- T.A. Cunningham
In addition, quarterback [autotag]Ethan Grunkemeyer[/autotag] has been listed as questionable.
Big Ten schools are required to provide a player availability report no later than two hours prior to a scheduled kickoff. The policy was put into effect in 2023 and has seen a few conferences follow that idea in 2024.
MAC schools are also now required to release player availability reports beginning this season under a similar policy. We were still waiting for the player availability report for Bowling Green at the time of this posting.
Penn State and Bowling Green are scheduled to kick things off at noon Eastern on Big Ten Network.