(WHTM) -- Players, both current and former, took to social media Sunday to weigh in after Penn State fired head football coach James Franklin.

Standout linebacker Tony Rojas, a junior, described the move as "heartbreaking."

"I appreciate you coach for the opportunity and being so good to me and my family," Rojas wrote on X. "Wasn't just a great coach but someone who cared about us players and wanted to develop us as men off the field too."

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DaeSean Hamilton, the Nittany Lions' all-time receptions leader and only player in school history with 200 or more receptions, called Franklin "a winner and a great leader of men."

In an Instagram story, senior quarterback Drew Allar, whose

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