The likelihood of Bill O'Brien leaving Penn State for the NFL increased drastically today, as a firm report from ESPN NFL Insiders Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter indicates that the Houston Texans are close to finalizing a deal to draw O'Brien to Texas.
Bill O'Brien plans to interview with the Houston Texans at some point in the near future according to a report by Ian Rapoport, an NFL Network National Insider. We previously reported this past week that O'Brien had approached university officials asking for his NFL contract buyout to be lowered.
Freshman quarterback Christian Hackenberg added an additional three national accolades to his growing list of freshman honors this past week.
Devon Still is one of the Penn State's best defensive players in recent history and it turns out he has one of the best hearts as well. This video of a random act of kindness, posted to his Instagram account yesterday, should make any Penn Stater swell with pride.
Penn State's favorite parody Twitter account brings us all some holiday cheer the night before Christmas.
In today's unsurprising news, former Penn State guard John Urschel was selected as the 2013 Senior CLASS Award winner for football, given to the "most outstanding senior student-athlete" in each respective sport. Penn State senior (and now National Champion) Ariel Scott won the award last week for women's volleyball.