The honor is given annually to the best player in college football.
"We're going to ask these guys to do a lot more. We're going to ask them to be better than they were a year before."
Inspired by Jon Rothstein's "under-the-radar" descriptions of Penn State hoops' Kanye Clary and Zach Hicks, our staff defended some of its day-to-day Penn State sleeper picks.
Curtis Jacobs and Abdul Carter were named to the Butkus Award watch list, while Kalen King was tabbed for the Paycom Jim Thorpe Award watch list.
Mercury announced a new "NIL-driven content network" focused on Penn State along with an annual six-figure funding pledge to Happy Valley United.
"We like to say that the things that we do in the evening and on the weekends, we come in on Monday and we brew beers inspired by those things."