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JANUARY 12, 2023 • PENNLIVE.COM
SEAN CLIFFORD #14 - QUARTERBACK - PENN STATE NITTANY LIONS
How will Penn State replace Rose Bowl hero Sean Clifford? It helps to have a 5-star waiting in the wings Drew Allar is expected to be the Lions' starting quarterback in 2023.
Goes out with rosy performance Clifford completed 16 of 21 passes for 279 yards and two touchdowns during Monday's 35-21 win versus Utah in the Rose Bowl. He also had eight rushes for negative one yard.
Impact Clifford led Penn State to its third Rose Bowl win in program history, logging a season-high 13.3 yards per attempt on the biggest stage of college football. The sixth-year senior got off to a rough start with a run for a three-yard loss followed by a sack on the opening series of the game. But, he quickly bounced back two drives later, taking Penn State down the field with five completions on six passes for 57 yards to set up a five-yard rushing touchdown by freshman running back Nicholas Singleton. Clifford then went 4-for-5 passing for 68 yards and a 10-yard touchdown pass to Mitchell Tinsley on a 70-yard scoring drive on the subsequent possession. The signal-caller capped off this performance with a season-long 88-yard touchdown pass to KeAndre Lambert-Smith on the first play of the fourth quarter, putting Penn State up 28-14. This set Clifford's next career-high for passing touchdowns in a season (24), and he finished his four-year starting career with 84 passing touchdowns to 31 interceptions as well as 15 rushing touchdowns across his 47 games in a white and blue uniform. With Clifford's time in Happy Valley now at an end, budding freshman Drew Allar is in line to ascend into the team's starting quarterback role in 2023.
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