James Franklin visits running back target in Georgia

James Franklin and his assistants made some key recruiting stops in the South on Wednesday.

College football’s early signing period opens next week, and James Franklin and the Penn State coaches are making the final sales pitches to recruiting targets to come to Penn State. As Franklin continues to work the south for talent to come north and play for the Nittany Lions, a recruiting stop in Georgia was on the agenda as he looks to secure a commitment for another running back in the Class of 2023.

Cameron Wallace, a three-star running back from Mount Vernon, Georgia, shared a photo on his Twitter account where he is posing with James Franklin, running backs coach and co-offensive coordinator Ja’Juan Seider, and safeties coach and co-defensive coordinator Anthony Poindexter, along with his high school football coach. The visit took place Wednesday morning as Franklin and his staff were making some key recruiting visits down south.

Wallace visited Penn State in November and the Nittany Lions appear to be the favorite to secure his commitment in the Class of 2023. There are no crystal ball picks on record on 247Sports, but the On3 prediction machine calculates Penn State having a 93.6% chance of receiving his commitment. Georgia Tech is the second-most likely option for the in-state recruit in Georgia, but this one appears to be trending in Penn State’s direction quite favorably.

That was just one visit on the schedule for Franklin and his staff on Wednesday, however. Later in the day, Franklin and his assistants made their way down to Selma, Alabama to check in on one of Penn State’s top commitments in the current recruiting class, safety [autotag]Da’Kaari Nelson[/autotag].

The early signing period opens on December 21 and closes on December 23. It is expected Nelson and the vast majority of Penn State’s Class of 2023, including Nelson, will be signed in that time. And with a little luck, maybe Penn State will have one more commitment from Wallace to add to the stockpile.

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