{"id":383752,"date":"2024-04-11T18:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T18:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=383752"},"modified":"2024-04-11T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T19:02:12","slug":"penn-state-lands-huge-commitment-from-alvin-henderson-who-ran-for-61-touchdowns-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=383752","title":{"rendered":"Penn State lands huge commitment from Alvin Henderson, who ran for 61 touchdowns last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a huge Thursday for Penn State as four-star running back Alvin Henderson gave his commitment to the Big Ten program. And all Henderson seems to do is run for touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nittanylionswire.usatoday.com\/\">Penn State<\/a> fought off several big names to land Henderson, <a href=\"https:\/\/n.rivals.com\/content\/athletes\/alvin-henderson-284670\">a player ranked by Rivals<\/a> as the third-best running back in the nation and the No. 36 overall recruit. He is a member of the 2025 recruiting class.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/football\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/253649\/alvin-henderson\">ESPN ranks him<\/a> as the No. 55 player in the nation and the sixth-best player in Alabama this recruiting cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Henderson ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/al\/elba\/elba-tigers\/athletes\/alvin-henderson\/football\/stats\/?careerid=sojahnjr53rj3\">for 3,253 yards and a staggering 61 touchdowns<\/a> for Elba High School (Elba, Alabama) in 14 games played.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Four-Star RB Alvin Henderson has Committed to Penn State, he tells me for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/On3Recruits?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@on3recruits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 5\u201910 200 RB from Elba, AL chose the Nittany Lions over Auburn &amp; Miami<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to do something special in a state besides Bama &amp; continue the tradition that Penn State has each\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FeW7WnrK1c\">pic.twitter.com\/FeW7WnrK1c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hayesfawcett3\/status\/1778469794829746651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He picked Penn State from an offer list that included <a href=\"https:\/\/auburnwire.usatoday.com\/\">Auburn<\/a>, Florida State, Miami and <a href=\"https:\/\/duckswire.usatoday.com\/\">Oregon<\/a> among others.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/season\/2025-football\/commits\/\">Nittany Lions now have 12 commits<\/a> in the class of 2025. Henderson is one of four recruits ranked as a four-star by 247Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Alvin Henderson commits to Penn State football.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383754,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383752\/revisions\/383754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}