James Franklin not giving up on 2025 top 100 wide receiver and Ohio State commit

With Early National Signing Day less than a month away, plenty of top prospects in the 2025 college football recruiting class have been flipping their commitments. Amidst the late kick to 2025 the recruiting finish line, James Franklin hosted top 100 prospect and Ohio State wide receiver commit Quincy Porter in Happy Valley for last week’s White Out win over Washington. 

With the struggles of the receiver corps this season, the position has been the top 2025 recruiting priority for Franklin and his staff. The Nittany Lions have four wide receiver commits in 2025, including four-star Matthew Outten who flipped from Virginia Tech earlier this fall, but Porter would be the group’s headliner if the New Jersey product chooses Happy Valley over Columbus. 

The unofficial White Out visit was Porter’s second visit to any campus since committing to the Buckeyes back in June, and his first this fall. Porter visited Oklahoma a week after announcing his commitment. 

Porter is the highest-ranked wide receiver in Ohio State’s No. 1 ranked 2025 recruiting class, but he would be joining a loaded position group on Ryan Day’s roster in Columbus. The Buckeyes have produced four first-round NFL draft picks at receiver across the last three drafts, will likely have another in 2025 with Emeka Egbuka, and have the best freshman receiver in the country in 2024 five-star Jeremiah Smith. 

If Porter values playing time early in his career, then Penn State is the more appealing option. Harrison Wallace III, Omari Evans, and Liam Clifford will all likely return to Penn State for 2025, but Porter could easily work his way into that rotation as a true freshman. 2024 true freshman Tyseer Denmark could begin to see snaps over the final three games of the regular season and he arrived on campus as a three-star recruit, not the No. 58 overall player in the class according to 247Sports composite rankings as Porter is. 

With Outten, Jeff Exinor Jr. Koby Howard, and Lyrick Samuel, Penn State has a solid 2025 wide receiver class, but Porter, even if his commitment costs one of those four players a spot in the class, would put it over the top and could help Drew Allar immediately. That is if the former five-star quarterback returns for his final season of eligibility.