"I love Penn State, I love our players, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Hopefully, all of this conversation will be over very shortly."
Ellis and Oweh will start in the places of Tariq Castro-Fields and Yetur Gross-Matos, respectively, in the Nittany Lions' regular season finale.
Liam Folkes' natural hat trick powered the Nittany Lions to a big victory on the road as part of the Turkey Leg Classic.
Rutgers isn't very good at football, but starting quarterback Artur Sitkowski and running back Raheem Blackshear's entries into the transfer portal and voluntary redshirts haven't helped the Scarlet Knights too much.
The Nittany Lions didn't fall outside the College Football Playoff committee's top 10 despite losing to No. 1 Ohio State on Saturday.
James Franklin confirmed that he discussed the matter with Shorter, but he didn't provide any information on the matter outside of that.