WR
Redshirt Senior
Veteran transfer receiver via Colorado, East Carolina, and Iowa State. Sowell adds size, experience, and system familiarity, but his 2026 role should remain a competition with Keith Jones Jr., Koby Howard, Peter Gonzalez, and other receivers.
Chase Sowell gives Penn State a veteran receiver with one of the more unusual transfer paths on the roster. Penn State lists him as a redshirt senior from Humble, Texas, with previous stops at Colorado, East Carolina, and Iowa State before joining Matt Campbell in State College.
The main roster value is experience. Sowell has played in multiple offensive systems and brings size at 6-foot-3 and 205 pounds, which matters for a Penn State receiver room that needed older bodies and outside competition. His Iowa State season also gives him direct familiarity with Campbell's staff and offensive vocabulary.
For the 2026 depth chart, Sowell should be described as a transfer receiver competing for perimeter snaps and red-zone usage. He should not be called a guaranteed WR1 until Penn State shows the receiver rotation in games, but he is one of the more logical veteran candidates to stabilize the group.