STATE COLLEGE – Penn State football coach James Franklin met with Nick Singleton last Sunday, telling him that he was thinking too much instead of “letting it rip.”

Singleton took his coach’s advice and rushed for 84 yards and two touchdowns in the Nittany Lions’ 52-6 win over Villanova Saturday at Beaver Stadium.

“I was trusting my instincts,” he said, “and not thinking too much. I was trying not to make every play perfect. You’re going to make mistakes. I have to let the plays come to me. It’s about finding yards, dirty yards.”

Singleton increased his career touchdowns to 46, seven behind Penn State all-time leader Saquon Barkley. He also moved past Curtis Enis into third place in career rushing touchdowns with 37, one behind second-place Lydell Mitchell and six behind Barkley, the al

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