Penn State Football offers former North Texas defensive end Grayson Murphy

The search for pas rush help continues for Penn State Football as the former North Texas defensive end Grayson Murphy is the latest transfer portal defender to receive an offer from the Lions 

North Texas defensive end Grayson Murphy announced via his Twitter on Saturday that he has received an offer from head coach James Franklin and Penn State Football only one day after entering the transfer portal.

Franklin and the Nittany Lions have a glaring weakness along the front seven, and Murphy could give Penn State Football’s defense a boost.

Murphy enters the portal after two seasons with North Texas and three remaining years of eligibility, so he is a player that would help the Nittany Lions beyond just 2022.

Penn State Football’s immediate interest in Murphy is no surprise after he had a breakout season in 2021 collecting 37 total tackles, eight and a half sacks and a forced fumble. In his true freshman season he had 19 tackles and three sacks, so the year to year improvement is promising along with his pass-rushing prowess.

Listed at six-foot-two and 235 pounds he could afford a few months in Penn State Football’s weight room to throw on and keep on the pounds needed to play at this level, but that was true for Arnold Ebiketie this past season and he went out and collected double-digit sacks and is on his way to becoming a day one or two NFL draft pick.

Murphy is a former three-star recruit out of Dallas, Texas, and did not have a power five offer coming out of high school. He certainly fits the mold of other transfer portal players Franklin has brought to Happy Valley. He has smartly chosen to not focus on the starts you had coming out of high school, but the production players have had at the collegiate level. Overachievers from the group of five and lower-end power five programs have been the recipe for the Lions thus far.