Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Penn State Football

Penn State Lands WPIAL Product From Transfer Portal

Penn State ranking James Franklin Franco Harris
Penn State Athletics

Penn State has landed its fourth transfer portal commitment of this cycle, and it’s a western PA kid.

Jordan Mayer is a 6-foot-4 defender who was listed as an EDGE coming out of Thomas Jefferson High School in the Pittsburgh Area.

After Thomas Jefferson, Mayer, a three-star from the ‘23 Class, signed with Wisconsin and played a season.

Wisconsin listed him as an outside linebacker, but he didn’t get any playing time. Mayer announced via Instagram Friday afternoon that he’s committing to Penn State out of the transfer portal. Mayer didn’t receive an offer from Penn State coming out of high school. He had originally been committed to Boston College, but flipped to Wisconsin. He’ll be coming to Penn State in a preferred walk-on capacity.

Mayer also had offers from schools such as Akron, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Duke, Duquesne, Eastern Michigan, Georgia Tech, James Madison, Kent State, Miami (Ohio), Navy, Ohio, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech and West Virginia.

He’s the second transfer portal player in the past day+ to announce his commitment to Penn State.

Add Nittany Sports Now as a preferred source in Google! Click here to add us.

Julian Fleming, another PA kid who was a five-star WR coming out of Southern Columbia High School, which is roughly an hour and a half away from State College.

Weeks before Fleming, Chase Meyer (almost the same last name), announced his commitment.

Meyer is a kicker who had been at Tulsa.

Penn State also got a commitment from OL Alan Herron, who had played at Division II Shorter. But Herron flipped to Maryland, who Penn State will be playing in Beaver Stadium on Senior Day 2024, scheduled for Nov. 30.

Penn State isn’t done in the transfer portal, and we’ll see what happens next.

Get NSN in your Inbox

Enter your email address to get notifications of new posts by email.

More from Nittany Sports Now

Penn State Wrestling

0s With Penn State hosting the 2025-26 Big Ten Wrestling Championships at the Bryce Jordan Center this Saturday and Sunday, we have our predictions...

Penn State Wrestling

3s A lot of star wrestlers come from wrestling families, but that wasn’t the case for Penn State commit Elijah Brown. Brown comes from...

Penn State Wrestling

1 Penn State wrestling has several commitments competing at this week’s PIAA State Championships, and although Teag Sanderson isn’t one of them (yet), his...

Penn State Wrestling

2s The PIAA State Wrestling tournament is scheduled for March 5-7 in Hershey, and as always, Penn State is well-represented. PSU will have representatives...