NOTABLES
• Appeared in three career games.
• Three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
2020 • REDSHIRT JUNIOR SEASON
Awards: Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
Season: Appeared in one game...Selected as the Coaching Staff's Developmental Special Teams Player of the Week for the Nebraska game (11/14).
2019 • REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE SEASON
Awards: Selected Academic All-Big Ten.
Season: Appeared in one game...Selected as the Coaching Staff's Developmental Squad Offensive Player of the Week for the Idaho game.
Idaho (8/31): Caught a 10-yard pass.
2018 • REDSHIRT FRESHMAN SEASON
Awards: Was an Academic All-Big Ten selection.
Season: Appeared in one game...One of 40 players to make their first Penn State appearance...Named the coaching staff's Scout Team Offensive Player of the Week following the Pittsburgh game (9/8).
Maryland (11/24): Made Penn State debut, seeing action on offense and special teams.
2017 • TRUE FRESHMAN SEASON
Redshirt season...Selected to the Dean's List in the fall of 2017 and spring of 2018.
HIGH SCHOOL
Three-time letterman at Nazareth Academy in Illinois for head coach Tim Racki and one-time letterman for head coach Doug Dahms at Wilson High School in Pennsylvania...Was a two-time team captain...Helped the Roadrunners to back-to-back Illinois State Championships with a perfect 14-0 record as a sophomore and an 11-2 mark as a junior...Helped the Bulldogs to a 12-2 record that featured a District 3 Championship and state semifinal appearance in 2016...Named first-team All-East Suburban Catholic Conference as a junior...Earned Lancaster Lebanon League all-conference accolades as a senior...Was named All-Berks by the Reading Eagle in 2016...Collected all-district honors in 2016...Selected to the Big 33 Game as a senior... Accounted for 35 receptions, 750 yards and 10 touchdowns as a freshman...Had 14 receptions for 280 yards and two scores as a sophomore at Nazareth...Tallied 35 catches for 547 yards and two touchdowns as a junior...Was named the IHSA State Championship MVP in 2015...Had 43 receptions for 543 yards and 10 touchdowns in his only season at Wilson...Lettered in track twice and lacrosse once...Was a sectional, regional and state qualifier in the triple jump, 4x100 and 4x200...Earned the Dr. Hassler Academic Excellence Award at Wilson and the Kaiser Academic Scholarship at Nazareth.
PERSONAL
Full name is Justin Scott Weller...Son of Carol and Jeff Weller...Has three brothers, Kevin, Andrew and Doug...Father, Jeff, and aunts, Barbara Duchan Mitchell and Linda Duchan Koch all attended Penn State...Hobbies include coaching youth football and mentoring...Working towards graduate degree in economics...Born June 30, 1998 in Reading, Pennsylvania.