Former Penn State player Mehki Flowers, who played offense and defense during his time in State College, has picked his transfer destination. Akron announced the Harrisburg native as its latest addition on Monday ahead of the 2025 season. The Zips, who are still coached by former Nittany Lions offensive coordinator Joe Moorhead, will start Flowers at safety. He started his time on State College at that spot, too. Then, before the 2024 season, he moved to receiver. He played in six games over his first two seasons in blue and white. After moving to offense, he saw snaps in just one game at receiver but did play in eight of 16 games on special teams.

“Mehki, we recruited like we recruit a bunch of our guys, we thought he could play both sides of the ball,” Lions coach James Franklin said back in the spring of 2024. “Between his dad reaching out and Mehki came in at the end of the season and said that he would like to make the move. So that’s really how that happened. We were obviously open to it, because again, recruiting Mehki, he was an explosive athlete on both sides of the ball with a ton of talent and ball skills. 

“So it was really what he wanted to do, but also we were comfortable with it because we recruited him in a way that we felt like he could help play on either side of the ball.”

Flowers is the last Penn State player who left after the 2024 season to pick his transfer destination.

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Penn State transfer portal roundup

Jerry Cross, a former Penn State tight end, is already at Memphis. Former Nittany Lions quarterback Beau Pribula, meanwhile, is now at Missouri. 

S Tyrece Mills: UCONN
CB Cam Miller: Rutgers
WR Trey Wallace: Ole Miss
WR Omari Evans: Washington
DT T.A. Cunningham: JUCO
WR Mehki Flowers: Akron
WR Tyler Johnson: East Carolina

Penn State signed a handful of players out of the portal in addition to the ones they lost. Those newcomers are already on campus and going through winter workouts. They will soon go through spring practices then too starting next month.