{"id":854448,"date":"2026-04-05T03:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854448\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T03:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:02:22","slug":"four-star-wr-landon-blum-ends-recruitment-commits-to-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854448\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-star WR Landon Blum ends recruitment, commits to Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State picked up a second commitment Saturday evening when Woodbine, Iowa, native\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/landon-blum-242217\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Landon Blum<\/a>\u00a0ended his recruitment to join the Nittany Lions. <\/p>\n<p>A consensus four-star prospect at all three major recruiting sites, Blum was originally offered by <a href=\"https:\/\/gopsusports.com\/staff\/matt-campbell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Matt Campbell<\/a> and his staff while still at Iowa State in April 2024. Following a handful of visits to Ames over an 18-month stretch, the 6-foot-4, 205-pound athlete made it no secret last September that he was favoring the Cyclones at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a great relationship with the old ISU staff and new PSU staff right now,\u201d Blum told Rivals analyst Allen Trieu. \u201cReally working on building that relationship with Coach Moore right now since he\u2019s new to the program. He\u2019s been great so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/penn-state-nittany-lions\/news\/the-s-zone-how-hot-can-penn-state-recruiting-get-this-spring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The \u2018S\u2019 Zone: How hot can Penn State recruiting get this spring?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At one point, Blum was ranked as a tight end by Rivals, but that\u2019s since been changed to wide receiver. Penn State always planned to use him more as a wide receiver in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/taylor-mouser-133714\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Mouser\u2019s<\/a> offense. Although he plays eight-man football in high school, Blum is still considered an excellent prospect, earning a spot in the Rivals300 at No. 278 nationally. The Industry Rankings have him ranked even higher at No. 202 nationally at 26th overall at wide receiver. <\/p>\n<p>Including Penn State, which formally offered Blum in mid-January, Blum totaled 20 scholarship offers throughout his recruitment. Other notable schools included Auburn, Duke, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas State, Maryland, Miami, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ole Miss and Wisconsin. Last season, Blum finished with 60 receptions for 1,049 yards. He also had 24 receiving touchdowns, the most in Iowa in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, Blum also finished second in the state championship meet for the Men\u2019s 1A High Jump with a personal best of 6 feet, 7 inches.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State picked up a second commitment Saturday evening when Woodbine, Iowa, native\u00a0Landon Blum\u00a0ended his recruitment to join&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,108257],"class_list":{"0":"post-854448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-landon-blum-27-woodbine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116349878028308618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854448","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=854448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}