Sometimes Brandon Polk will look back to his playing days at Briar Woods High School in Ashburn, Va., and recall when he was catching passes from quarterback Trace McSorley on a successful team that made a habit of going to state championship games.
Now the level of football is a significant step higher and yet there again is Polk catching passes from McSorley, this time at Penn State.
“That’s really amazing,” Polk, a redshirt junior wide receiver, said Tuesday in a conference call with reporters. “Sometimes I’m out there running routes and I’m just thinking of four or five years ago when we were in high school just going around and having fun, and now we’re doing the same thing in college.