‘It just made sense.’ Here’s what James Franklin said about Eli Manning’s undercover visit

A day after a video of Eli Manning going undercover as a walk-on at Penn State went viral, head coach James Franklin spoke about how it all came about.

Manning, who donned the disguise for his ESPN+ show “Eli’s Places,” reached out to the program before scheduling the late August visit.

“At the end of the day for me I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t going to disturb our process of what we needed to do and not become a distraction,” Franklin said Tuesday during his weekly press conference.

Watch the video above for more about Manning’s visit and how “it just made sense” for the program.

This story was originally published September 20, 2022 at 4:20 PM.