Franklin believes Warren should bring home some hardware this season — and should be invited to New York City for the Heisman Trophy ceremony. “They ought to bring the Mackey Award tonight,” Franklin said. “Put it on a private jet, fly it to Tyler Warren and give it to him on Sunday. And then he should get an invitation to New York.

Warren once wondered whether he was good enough to play tight end at Penn State. Now, he's a potential Heisman Trophy candidate.

Warren is near the end of what will likely be the most prolific career by a Penn State tight end. He has 124 receptions for 1,516 yards and 16 touchdowns in his career. He owns the school record for receiving yards by a tight end and needs six catches and one TD to hold the records in those categories.

The unusual tight end numbers and attention keep coming for Penn State football's Tyler Warren. He's a 6-foot-6, 261-pound junior − and a former high school quarterback − from Mechanicsville, Virginia. He's a lefty. And he continues to put up gaudy statistics and break tight end records − doing it all in the most versatile ways possible.

At halftime of Saturday's Penn State-Purdue game, the CBS broadcast crew spent substantial time comparing Penn State's Tyler Warren with Colorado's Travis Hunter. The terms revolved around team value and versatility. The crew said Warren was at least as valuable to his team, and as versatile, as one of the Heisman Trophy frontrunners.

Penn State tight end Tyler Warren continued to make some history on Saturday afternoon in Beaver Stadium. With his touchdown catch from Drew Allar late in the second quarter, Warren set a new Penn State record for the most touchdown catches by a tight end.

Late in the first quarter, Penn State tight end Tyler Warren added a new record to his career resume. Warren's first catch of the game, a 20-yard gain against the Maryland defense, moved Warren into first place on the Big Ten leaderboard for the most receptions in