Penn State Football: Creating depth chart a players' affair at Penn State

Before talking football, Penn State’s head coach briefly responded to a lawsuit filed against him and the university a day earlier by the former team doctor and director of athletic medicine that alleges Franklin pressured him to clear injured players. “We’ll continue to vigorously defend our program and all participants in this manner,” Franklin said in his opening remarks Tuesday at his first press conference of the season. “As always the health and well-being of our student-athletes is of the utmost importance to us.” Dr. Scott Lynch argues in his whistleblower lawsuit — in which he is seeking more than $50,000 in damages — that Franklin “attempted to interfere with (Lynch’s) autonomous...