3 takeaways from Penn State Football’s major portal addition Mitchell Tinsley

Mitchell Tinsley can BALL

Not only does Tinsley fill a void left by Dotson, but he can really play and may even remind Penn State Football fans of the star playmaker if he sticks with the number five he dawned at Western Kentucky.

Tinsley caught 87 passes for 1,402 yards and 14 touchdowns this past season, helping quarterback Bailey Zappe set the NCAA single-season passing touchdown record previously set by Joe Burrow in 2019.

The All-Conference USA wideout didn’t just wreak havoc in conference either, he got a chance to play two Big Ten opponents in 2021 in Indiana and Michigan State.

Tinsley was quiet against Indiana catching four passes for 68 yards, but showed out against the Spartans with seven receptions for 127 yards. For Tinsley, 11 catches for 195 yards in two games against Big Ten opponents is a positive sign he can repeat that in the blue and white in 2022.

Listed at six-foot-one and 205 pounds, Tinsley is big and strong, but is also a yards after catch machine, and it led to a lot of big plays in 2021. Tinsley averaged 16.1 yards per reception and had five receptions of 40 plus yards this past season, including a spectacular 75-yard touchdown catch and run touchdown in the Baco Raton Bowl.