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2024 4-Star WR Keylen Adams Has Penn State in Top 4

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Class of 2024 four-star WR Keylen Adams has Penn State in his top four, he tweetedย Monday morning.

Penn State is a finalist along with Pitt, Virginia Tech and West Virginia.

Adams is a 6-foot-2, 185-pounder from Green Run High School in Virginia Beach.

This past season, he had 1,030 yards and 16 touchdowns receiving, averaging 25 yards per catch. 247Sports has Adams as the No. 100 overall player in the country from his class and the No. 19 receiver. He visited Penn State for one of its Junior Day events Jan. 14. Adamsย told 247ย that Penn State โ€œreally showed me how much they want me.โ€

โ€œEverything that was planned, they made sure I was the first to do it or know about it,โ€ Adams said.

Adams is also a fan of Penn Stateโ€™s offense.

โ€œThey run a decision-making scheme that, as a receiver, you have to be able to run very good routes to get open,โ€ he told 247. โ€œI think it fits me great, honestly.โ€

Penn Stateโ€™s had recent success recruiting in Virginia. Penn Stateโ€™s Class of 2023 signed six players from the state. Two of them: four-star OL Alex Birchmeierย (Ashburn) and four-star LB Tony Rojasย (Fairfax) are among Penn Stateโ€™s top three โ€˜23 signees according to 247Sportsโ€™ composite ratings. Penn State helped its future prospects in recruiting players from Virginia last month when it hired Marques Hagans, who coached at the University of Virginia for 10 seasons, as its new receivers coach.

Penn Stateโ€™s lone receiver signed to the 2023 class, Carmelo Taylor, is from Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia.

To land Adams, Penn State will have to fight off an in-state rival in Pitt, a Virginia school in Virginia Tech and a tri-state area school in West Virginia.

Penn State currently has two โ€˜24 players committed. They are four-star OL Cooper Cousinsย (McDowell High School) and four-star LB Anthony Specaย (Pittsburgh Central Catholic). Both of those players are from Pennsylvania, and neither are skill position players. Keylen Adams would be the first commit from outside the commonwealth and the first skill player in Penn Stateโ€™s Class of 2024.

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