It has been like nothing local high school football has ever seen before.<\/p>\n
Then again, college football is like nothing it has ever been before with NIL money flowing, transfer portals providing revolving doors, and a coaching carousel that seems to be spinning faster than ever.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Nazareth star quarterback Peyton Falzone announced he was de-committing from a third school, Auburn. Previously, he de-committed from Virginia Tech and Penn State.<\/p>\n
A signing ceremony was originally scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, as Wednesday is the early signing date for NCAA football.<\/p>\n
But on Tuesday morning, Nazareth athletic director Ray Ramella notified the media that the signing ceremony had been postponed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not have any additional information at this time, but will certainly keep you all posted as to when we will reschedule,\u201d Ramella said in an e-mail.<\/p>\n
So, Falzone\u2019s future destination will remain a mystery for a little longer.<\/p>\n
Previously, both he and his father, Nazareth coach Tom Falzone, have said that the calls have never stopped coming from coaches across the country, even after Falzone had announced his commitments. One of the frequent callers has been former Penn State coach James Franklin, who is now the new coach at Virginia Tech, which was Falzone\u2019s original choice.<\/p>\n
Back in August, after he decommitted from Penn State and decided on Auburn, he talked about the non-stop attention and scrutiny<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout this entire recruitment process, I have learned I have to do the best thing for me,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople will have their opinions. Great, feel free to share them. Everybody likes to have input. But realistically, the only opinions I care about are my parents and my own. I know I am very blessed to be in the situation I\u2019m in, and millions of high school kids out there would love to be in my shoes and to be going to an SEC, power-four school and go and play big-time football. Yes, it\u2019s a huge responsibility. And it\u2019s one I fully accept.\u201d<\/p>\n
He is coming off an abbreviated senior season after suffering a fractured clavicle in his non-throwing shoulder in the first half of a Week 4 game against Freedom.<\/p>\n
Through the first three games of 2025 and the first half of the Freedom game, Falzone had thrown for 1,176 yards and passed for 12 TDs. He also had 216 rushing yards and six rushing TDs.<\/p>\n
As a junior in 2024, he was named the EPC\u2019s offensive player of the year after he completed 146 of his 278 passes for 2,135 yards and 23 touchdowns with four interceptions. He also ran 78 times for 697 yards and eight additional scores<\/p>\n
As a sophomore in 2023, he led Nazareth to a District 11 6A championship by throwing for a league-best 2,528 yards and 19 touchdowns. He had just four passes intercepted in 280 attempts. He also ran for 440 yards, averaging 6.8 yards per carry, and scored 11 touchdowns.<\/p>\n
Ohio-based quarterback trainer Brad Maendler who has worked with him over the past year, said of Falzone on social media: \u201cHe\u2019s the most physically gifted QB I\u2019ve ever trained, and he made huge improvements in his throwing mechanics over this past off-season. The future is bright.\u201d<\/p>\n
But where that future will be has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been like nothing local high school football has ever seen before. Then again, college football is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,304,305,726,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-50322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-high-school-football","12":"tag-high-school-sports","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}