{"id":649954,"date":"2026-01-03T05:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649954\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:56:17","slug":"penn-state-wr-liam-clifford-declares-for-nfl-draft-penn-state-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649954\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State WR Liam Clifford declares for NFL draft | Penn State Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Penn State wide receiver is headed to the pros.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Clifford has declared for the 2026 NFL draft, he announced Friday via Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Clifford spent five years in the blue and white, and he played in 52 games across his career. He tallied 42 catches for 530 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>This season, he appeared in 12 games, making three catches for 25 yards. He was used as a gadget quarterback as well after injuries to Drew Allar and Jaxon Smolik, and both of his passing attempts fell incomplete.<\/p>\n<p>Clifford is the younger brother of former Nittany Lions quarterback Sean Clifford, who was drafted in the fifth round by the Green Bay Packers in 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MORE FOOTBALL COVERAGE<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psucollegian.com\/football\/wr-peter-gonzalez-announces-return-to-penn-state-for-2026-season\/article_4fadcdcd-4e3a-42a2-be15-e388e0497598.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"WR Peter Gonzalez announces return to Penn State for 2026 season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"WR Peter Gonzalez announces return to Penn State for 2026 season\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1765\" height=\"1174\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/67bb600fa90d4.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">A member of the wide receiver group is coming back. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in submitting a Letter to the Editor, click here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psucollegian.com\/form\/letter_to_the_editor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                Submit<br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Penn State wide receiver is headed to the pros. Liam Clifford has declared for the 2026 NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[265,7,636,122,6,15,47357,1890,47358,11051,632,635],"class_list":["post-649954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-draft","tag-american-football","tag-football","tag-gridiron-football-variants","tag-national-football-league","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-nfl-seasons","tag-nfl-teams","tag-nfl-teams-seasons","tag-sean-clifford","tag-seasons-in-american-football","tag-seasons-in-american-sport"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115829629636142233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}