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Report: Penn State lands top DT recruit
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Penn State might’ve found itself a future replacement for Anthony Zettel.
247Sports reported on Sunday that the nation’s No. 16 defensive tackle recruit in the 2016 class, Karamo Dioubate, is committing to Penn State.
The four-star lineman recorded 23 sacks as a junior last season and is expected to play both ways as a senior. The addition of Dioubate bumped the Lions up to fourth in 247Sports’ team rankings for 2016.
#PSU lands #Top247 DT Karamo Dioubate & climbs to No. 4 in 247Sports Team Recruiting Rankings http://t.co/wRpSMtQg6Z pic.twitter.com/9yJbQHyDXT
— 247Sports (@247Sports) August 16, 2015
Dioubate is ranked fourth among prospects in the state of Pennsylvania. He’ll join fellow top Pennsylvania recruits Michael Menet, Miles Sanders and Connor McGovern in State College next year.
James Franklin’s staff has 19 locked in for the 2016 class.
Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.