{"id":315427,"date":"2026-05-30T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/315427\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:49:09","slug":"only-dallas-vakalahi-until-penn-state-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/315427\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Dallas Vakalahi Until Penn State Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With our annual countdown underway, we decided to go back to the old formula of using current players on the Penn State roster that coincide with the days remaining until the Lions open with Marshall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This is especially important with a new-look roster in play for 2026, which includes No. 98 Dallas Vakalahi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The junior defensive tackle is a space eater who has transferred in after two seasons playing at Utah, including making two starts last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Vakalahi accumulated 27 tackles and two sacks during his time in Salt Lake City. He\u2019s a Utah native who will stand out because of his size &#8211; 6\u20192, 337 pounds. Vakalahi will try to be an anchor in the middle of the defensive line for first-year defensive coordinator D\u2019Anton Lynn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Lions will have another No. 98 on the roster as redshirt freshman Matthew Parker will also wear the number. Parker was a standout at Central York where he earned first-team all-state honors as a senior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Penn State will be back on the field in 98 days against Marshall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With our annual countdown underway, we decided to go back to the old formula of using current players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,113403],"class_list":["post-315427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-penn-state-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}