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Penn State Football: Cornell Transfer Hunter Nourzad Officially Joins Program

Penn State football officially added some much needed experience and depth to its offensive front on Monday night as Cornell transfer right tackle Hunter Nourzad officially joined the program after committing out of the transfer portal back in February.

Nourzad hits the scales at 6-foot-3, and 310 pounds and hails from Marietta, Ga. He spent the past four seasons at Cornell starring 20 consecutive games at right tackle. In his final year at Cornell, Nourzad was named named Phil Steele’s Ivy League Offensive Lineman of the Year.

Penn State has now a very small pipeline from the Ivy League to State College, Nourzad now the second offensive lineman to transfer to Penn State from the Ivy League following in the footsteps of now former Nittany Lion and Harvard transfer Eric Wilson.

No matter his roots, Nourzad adds depth and experience to a unit that is desperately in need of both. While Nourzad will be at Penn State for a limited time, the Nittany Lions’ ability to win in the trenches on the offensive side of the ball will go a very long way towards Penn State’s success in 2022.

“I would say at right tackle and center and left tackle with Caeden [Wallace], Sal [Wormley] and Olu
[Fashanu], I think those three guys played really well and took a ton of reps this spring,” Penn State coach James Franklin said earlier this year.

“We are going to have a good competition at guard, we will still have competition at those [other] positions, but we will have really good competition guard and see how that plays out. Getting Sal Wormley back from injury that we lost last year is valuable.”