Penn State football analyst Marty Leap, from Rivals’ Happy Valley Insider, talked to us on our USC football show at The Voice of College Football. He explained that Drew Allar has all the tools and he has the arm talent to be an elite quarterback. Allar had issues which were similar to the ones Caleb Williams faced in 2023, with receivers not getting open. In addition to that, Mike Yurcich’s offense was too conservative.
Will the revamped USC secondary under D’Anton Lynn and Doug Belk have the Trojans’ talented veteran corners and safeties ready to ground new offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki’s Penn State passing game? Drew Allar will try to make the pieces of the puzzle fit for Penn State’s passing attack, but USC will try to scatter those puzzle pieces when the Trojans host the Nittany Lions on Oct. 12, in one of the bigger matchups of the 2024 Big Ten season. Just how good is Drew Allar as a Big Ten quarterback? That’s one of the things we explored on our Penn State preview with Marty Leap:
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