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The anxiety over the fate of the 2020 college football season hasn’t hurt Penn State’s plans for future squads.

And the past two weeks have been particularly important for the 2022 recruiting class. On Monday, Central York quarterback Beau Pribula committed to the Nittany Lions, becoming the third junior in 10 days to pledge to the program.

Pribula, who grew up a Penn State fan in York County, already has some firepower to work with in his class despite not being able to officially sign with the Lions for another 16-plus months in December 2021.

Before Pribula went public with his decision on Monday by posting a video on social media, Penn State landed verbal commitments from a pair of four-star targets for the quarterback — Ohio wide receiver Kaden Saunders on July 25 and Wisconsin tight end Jerry Cross last Tuesday.

For his part, Pribula doesn’t have a rating yet by recruiting services Rivals and ESPN, but 247Sports initially has him as a three-star recruit as the nation’s No. 10 dual-threat quarterback for the 2022 cycle.

Pribula’s early scholarship offers included Nebraska, Syracuse, Virginia Tech and West Virginia. But an offer from the home-state school in late March — about two weeks after the coronavirus pandemic shut down sports nationwide — was the one that mattered most.

With Penn State’s spring practices canceled, it gave James Franklin and his coaches more time to look at film of recruits. And Pribula’s stood out in a very notable way to Franklin.

“He said he watched my film 15 times,” Pribula told the York Daily Record. “He said I reminded him of Trace McSorley. That was really cool and a pretty big compliment.”

An understatement, perhaps, considering McSorley broke several school records as Franklin’s quarterback from 2016-18. Pribula’s athleticism compares favorably to McSorley and the new recruit threw for 1,244 yards and eight touchdowns while running for 365 yards and 10 scores as a sophomore at Central. He had previously played receiver as a freshman.

At 6-foot-2, 195 pounds, Pribula stands two inches taller than McSorley, who won multiple state championships in high school in Virginia.

That’s where the comparisons will stop for now as the Lions await news on a potential schedule for this fall, let alone what the team will look like toward the middle of the decade.

Penn State also has a quarterback committed for the current 2021 class in four-star Canadian native Christian Veilleux. Incoming freshman Micah Bowens joined the team this summer behind starter Sean Clifford, Will Levis and Ta’Quan Roberson.