What Penn State players are in Matt Miller's mid-summer 2026 mock draft?
Penn State has historically been one of the best university football programs, sending talents thanks to the NFL draft. The first indications for the draft of the NFL 2026 suggest that the Nittany Lions will also be in sight in the draft next spring, and some players should be first -round choices. Matt Miller d’Espn includes two Penn State players during his first simulated draft for 2026 as far.
The first player of Penn State out of the table, according to Miller is the AJ Harris corner half, perhaps a slightly surprising choice of the list of Nittany Lions. But Harris has the kind of skills that the teams that the NFL are looking for in the defensive backs, and a happy new year in the secondary could give Harris a good boost in the first round. Miller planned Harris to go to Washington commanders with the 25th choice in total in the 2026 draft.
Penn State has developed a great reputation for defensive secondary players in recent years, and this could have been one of the reasons why Harris has chosen to transfer to Penn State DE DEC when he did. Expect more media threshing for Harris to move forward.
The next Penn State player out of the set is another simulation of drafts seems to have a little higher. It would be the quarter-Arrière Drew Allar, which some projected as one for the best quarters of the board of directors. Miller is a little less optimistic about what it is the case with a few passers -by who had ahead on ALLAR, but a 27th choice in total by the Rams of Los Angeles seems to be a decent landing point for ALLAR. ALLAR could it end up being the obvious heir for the winner winner of Super Bowl Matthew Stafford? This seems to be a good situation so that Allar is if it ends up being the case.
We will look at the progress of the simulated project until 2026 to see where Allar and Harris (and others) end up being projected by some of the biggest names in the NFL project community. There is a long way to go, so there could be many changes along the way.
You can consult Miller’s full draft in the middle of the summer for 2026 via ESPN.
This article originally appeared on Nittany Lions Wire: ESPN Mock NFL Draft has several Penn State players in the first round
