Penn State Football Recruit Spotlight: S Enzo Jennings

A consensus 4-star recruit, Enzo Jennings enters the Penn State secondary as one of the highest-rated safeties in the 2020 recruiting class.

Enzo Jennings had scholarship offers from nearly any school you could think of. Instead, he visited Penn State often, committed early and has been enrolled in classes since the beginning of 2020. As solid of a Nittany Lion as you can be, Jennings provides incredible upside for the secondary this season and beyond for Penn State.

Jennings was ranked as the 134th-best player overall, seventh-best safety and third-best player in the state of Michigan from this past season by 247Sports. He was also ranked as the country’s 198th-best player, 13th-ranked safety and fourth-best player in his state from Rivals.

He excelled so much at Oak Park High School in Oak Park, Michigan that he had at least 31 scholarship offers from schools such as Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Tennessee but chose the Nittany Lions in June of last season, having visited four times prior to his commitment. Jennings played a variety of positions in high school including wide receivers, cornerback, linebacker and safety, surely leaving his impact against every opponent.

Jennings stands at 6-foot-1 and weighs in at 185 pounds, having played across both sides of the field during his time at Oak Park. He projects to safety at Penn State and if he can add on some weight this winter and spring, he’ll certainly look even more the part of a true lumber-layer on the backend. We know Jennings has the skills to cover at cornerback as he does to lay a big hit on defenders from a linebacker position or as a deep safety.

247Sports National Recruiting Analyst had some high praise for Jennings:

"Has very good verified height and weight along with a longer body type. Athletic testing numbers, particularly shuttle and vertical, are that of a high-major prospect. Straight-line speed is well above average. Will have three years of varsity starting experience … Has the physical gifts to compete early in college and has a high ceiling as a long term prospect and NFL projection."

His coverage and tackling skills in mind, Jennings also possesses a strong return game, having broken multiple long returns this year.

Enrolled since January, Jennings will certainly be a player to watch this spring and be a threat to make some major waves in his first season in Happy Valley this fall. Good for us. Bad for opponents.