With just one game remaining in the 2022 college football season to crown this year’s national champion, ESPN has ranked the top 100 players from the sport we saw in 2022. And among the top 100 players ranked by ESPN, three of them wore the blue and white uniforms of Penn State.
Penn State had two of its top defensive players, cornerback Joey Porter Jr. and safety Ji’Ayir Brown, and its top offensive lineman, Olu Fashanu, recognized on ESPN’s list of the top 100 players from the 2022 season. Compared to ESPN’s list of the top 100 players prior to the start of the season, Fashanu and Brown each worked their way into the top 100.
Porter also made a big move up ESPN’s ranking this season. After starting the season ranked no. 75 on ESPN’s top 100 players in the preseason ranking, Porter ended the year at no. 30.
Here is where ESPN ranked all three players and what it had to say about each.