He tweeted photo of himself in his uniform!
Pat is back in
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One would assume the news is that the season is back on again probably 10/17 start.
Eric, it is believed Pat Friermuth is opting back in to play, assuming there is a season. Fingers crossed on both.
You know.....nobody ever confirmed he was leaving in the first place. 
If that's the case, why don't you post the tweet for everyone to see?
All of us who aren’t sitting in the BIG conference room in Indianapolis right now, or don’t have an advanced cryptology degree from MIT are confused if their honest.
probably didn’t want to be chastised for not utilizing the monthly Tweet thread *
Just to clarify, that is Instagram as opposed to Twitter, right?
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Report: Big Ten set to approve start of season beginning on October 17
It’s not quite official, but it looks as if Big Ten football is on its way back. After postponing fall sports, including football, on Aug. 11, several testing and tracing enhancements are now…
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YES!!!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YES!!!!!!!
Same deal with Oweh and Luketa practicing in Cali meaning they were gone too right?
I simply don’t know why people can’t understand that in todays world of social media “news”, you have to verify stuff so much more to get the actual truth. But people see something online and take it as gospel truth from jump street.
Between the “fake” news and the news that’s spun in a certain political direction you’d think people would know the shtick by now. But noooooope...... dummies still use Twitter as their news source.....
.......... people are idiots. Straight up uneducated fools. Dumb. Stupid.
Man this pisses me off....... grown ass adults spreading rumor like it’s high school.
Have to at least be a student to play. My guess is that Micah decided so early that he isn't even enrolled in classes this semester. Pat was enrolled, thankfully he didn't withdraw or he would be ineligible.
I believe Micah is on schedule to graduate in December. That's the last I read. He's probably signed with an agent which makes him ineligible.
Actually it's like a reverse psychology thing. Now I'm going to post again for Micah and Maybe he will come back too
Just like the rumor I just made up that Barron's "let's play" vote is guaranteed since Franklin filled his swimming pool with French onion dip.
(IMHO Barron/onion dip jokes never get old.)
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Pat may have never publicly said he was opting out, but it was more than a rumor. These in addition to confirmation from credible writers from other Penn State websites. Doesn't matter now, but my guess is if the season is pushed to January/spring, he doesn't play.
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Source: Penn State tight end Pat Freiermuth will not play this football season
Penn State football will be without its star tight end whenever it next takes the field. Junior tight end Pat Freiermuth will not return to play when the season begins, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
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REPORT: Pat Freiermuth to Skip Season
If Penn State is to play a winter or spring season, it will be without its top receiving target.
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Not sure what it means now, but it used to be 'Peace up, A-town down...' - so, it was a sign to represent Atlanta.
Aces. It's Coach Bowen's thing for the TE group.
He wants there to be peace in Australia.
If Micah is still in school and taking either 12 credits or enough to grad in Dec. then he could play but only, as you said, if he hasn't signed w/ an agent or taking any benefits from an agent.
Micah Parsons guarding against overtraining for NFL after opt out
Chase Goodbread
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Former Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons, one of the top prospects for next year's draft, trains at Proactive at the Marke in Orange County, California. (Ryan Capretta / Proactive Sports Performance)
Five weeks ago, former Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons was preparing for the 2020 college football season and, were it not for the postponement of the Big Ten fall schedule, would have been readying for a road trip this Saturday to face Big Ten foe Indiana. Instead, he's now 2,500 miles from campus, spending his days in Santa Ana, California, as the high-profile subject of an expensive and never-before-done endeavor: training for the NFL Scouting Combine with about six months of lead time, instead of the usual six weeks.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty it has imposed on college football has compelled many draft prospects, none a more highly regarded talent than Parsons, to opt out and begin preparing for the 2021 NFL Draft. Combine trainers, in turn, are now tasked with developing a six-month plan for opt-outs that has no blueprint.
And with millions of draft dollars at stake, there is no room for mistakes.
Proactive Sports Performance head trainer Ryan Capretta, who is overseeing Parsons' training along with another player who opted out, former USC defensive lineman Jay Tufele, acknowledges the obvious: Having plenty of time to train for the combine is far preferable to having too little. Nevertheless, an excess of time presents unique challenges, from preventing athletes from overtraining or mental burnout to preparing for the possibility that the date of the combine itself could be moved.
For now, the pace for Parsons is slow.
"I've never had this much free time," said Parsons in a phone interview earlier this week. "I don't know what to do with myself."
That's just fine with Capretta, whose initial work with Parsons has stayed in the realm of biomechanics, physical therapy and efficiency of movement. Combine-specific drill work will be introduced with a methodical, phased approach, and won't ramp up to a high tempo for months, probably in early December. Training on some days will be so light, Parsons will want more.
"You almost have to protect the athlete from himself," Capretta said. "Because the worst thing you can do is overtrain a guy."
Parsons figures to be one of the mostly highly rated prospects in the 2021 NFL Draft. Based on an evaluation of three 2019 game tapes, NFL.com analyst Daniel Jeremiah graded him better than all three off-the-ball linebackers selected in the first round of this year’s draft (Kenneth Murray, Patrick Queen and Jordyn Brooks). Parsons announced he would opt out of the college season and enter the 2021 draft on Aug. 6. His initial plan was to stay at PSU indefinitely and work out on campus, but five days later, when the Big Ten announced it would not play a fall season due to COVID-19 concerns, he decided against it.
"I was just going to work out at Penn State and keep doing my schoolwork so I could graduate this fall, but once everything got shut down, I thought 'I need somewhere to go. I need to start getting ready,' " Parsons said.
He’s set the bar high with his goals for the combine, including a 40-yard-dash time in the low 4.4-second area. Parsons said he was last clocked at Penn State with times of 4.40 and 4.44 seconds, remarkable for a player of his size (6-foot-3, 245 pounds, per school measurements).
"I haven't really had the training -- that's just what I can run off of athleticism," Parsons said. "Those times were from the spring of 2019, and I know I'm stronger and faster since then."
One of Proactive's specialties is helping prospects time their "peak" -- optimum performance in drills -- with the day they'll test at the combine, according to Athletes First’s Justin Schulman, a partner at the agency that represents Parsons. Capretta’s usual challenge is getting January-arriving prospects to that point just in time for the annual event in Indianapolis. However, with six months to train players who have opted out, the challenge is more about not peaking too soon.
"If the big ticket for a player is the 40, our concern is hamstrings. If you have too many reps moving at the highest velocity, you have an increased risk for injury," Capretta said. "You have to watch that you don't burn his motor, overcook him too much. And these guys are competitive to their bones. So to tell a guy you're not allowing him to run a 40, it can be a tough fight."
As for when to begin letting Parsons train at maximum exertion for combine events, the closest thing Capretta has to a model comes from previous prospects whose college teams failed to make a bowl game. Those players typically begin training in early December, a few weeks before many bowl-bound prospects start to prep. The recent trend of top prospects opting out of bowl games has added to his early December group -- Capretta noted Denver Broncos 2019 first-round pick Noah Fant and L.A. Rams 2020 second-rounder Cam Akers, as examples. Even that, however, isn't an ideal comparison because those players typically arrive with nagging injuries suffered during the season, requiring time to heal before more intense training can commence. Parsons and 2020 opt-outs, by contrast, won't have played a down this fall.
Athletes First recently struck a partnership with Proactive to train their clients exclusively at one of two California training facilities. The deal will put Capretta and his partner, Andy Campbell, in charge of training some of the draft's most high-profile prospects, and the flow of opt-outs could continue throughout the season. Capretta typically builds training schedules based on the number of days he'll have with a player before their final day at the combine, when physical testing is held. Normally, that might be a time crunch of 40 to 50 days beginning in January, after bowl season. This year, however, with the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences exploring the option of playing seasons that could start in the winter or spring, Capretta wonders if the NFL will push back the date of the combine.
"This is all uncharted waters," said Parsons' agent, Andre Odom. "This is all unprecedented territory."
For now, Parsons' day begins at 7 a.m. with four online classes he's taking from Penn State in pursuit of a Criminology degree he's scheduled to receive in December. When classes end, he's off to a late-morning workout, followed by more schoolwork, an afternoon physical therapy appointment and a core conditioning session.
But no day is exactly the same.
New workouts will be regularly introduced. On Fridays, Parsons will be transported off-site for something different, perhaps a mountain hike, training on the beach, running hills or a yoga class. And he'll be sent home for time with family periodically, particularly around holidays.
"We can't have him feeling like it's Groundhog Day for five months," Capretta said.
Micah Parsons guarding against overtraining for NFL after opt out
Top 2021 NFL Draft prospect Micah Parsons tells Chase Goodbread what he's doing to prepare for the next level after opting out of the college football season. The main tasks for his trainers right now? Avoiding monotony and too much training.
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