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Penn State Football: Top National Signing Day Targets

By Geoffrey Knox

Jan 2, 2017; Pasadena, CA, USA; Penn State Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin argues a call during the fourth quarter of the 2017 Rose Bowl game against the USC Trojans at Rose Bowl. Mandatory Credit: Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 2, 2017; Pasadena, CA, USA; Penn State Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin argues a call during the fourth quarter of the 2017 Rose Bowl game against the USC Trojans at Rose Bowl. Mandatory Credit: Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports /
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2. Tariq Castro-Fields, CB, Riverdale Baptist (MD)

Penn State’s top-20 ranking is attributable to quite a few things. They’ve added three highly-touted cornerbacks and don’t appear to be finished. Tariq Castro-Fields may be close to joining one of the most talented lineup of cornerbacks at the freshman position that you can find anywhere in the country.

Castro-Fields is 6-foot-1 and weighs in at 173 pounds. 247Sports.com sees him as the 34th-best cornerback in the country and as the eight-best overall player from the state of Maryland. He’s a four-star prospect that joins two other four-star cornerbacks and one three-star cornerback as part of Penn State’s 2017 class.

One of those four-star recruits comes in the form of Donovan Johnson, a 5-foot-10 standout who’s seen as the tenth-best player from the state of Michigan. The other is Lamont Wade. Wade is ranked 46th on 247Sports.com’s list of the best player in the country, and he’s seen as the second-best player from the state of Pennsylvania.

Throw in D.J. Brown and, possibly, Castro-Fields, and Penn State has a quartet of cover guys that will make Nittany Lions fans wish they could go back and play their last defensive possession of the Rose Bowl again.

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