Penn State has landed its ninth verbal commitment in the recruiting Class of 2020.

Allentown, Pa., Parkland offensive tackle Nicholas Dawkins picked the Lions over Northwestern, Indiana, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and others while on an unofficial visit to see the Lions on Monday. It marked his second visit in a month’s time.

“I was going to put out a top-12, but this feels right,” Dawkins wrote in a statement posted on his Twitter account.

“This has been a very exciting and crazy process.”

Dawkins is the third future guard to pick PSU in this cycle, as he joins Maryland three-star Golden Achumba and Virginia three-star RJ Adams. The only other lineman who is already committed, Michigan four-star Grant Toutant, is a future tackle.

A 6-foot-4, 300-pound senior-to-be, Dawkins is ranked as the No. 9 player in Pennsylvania by PennLive and as the No. 40 guard according to 247Sports.

“It’s cool because I grew up watching Penn State,” Dawkins told Blue-White Illustrated in March, which is the last time he visited campus and also when he picked up an offer from head coach James Franklin and his staff.

“When I was younger and going through the years, a lot of people in my school and family have been Penn State fans, so it’s cool. I’m a Pennsylvania kid, so to get a Pennsylvania State [University] offer is great.”

The Lions currently have a top-10 recruiting class nationally, and they will now turn their offensive line focus to the tackle spots, where it will likely hope to take two or three players in addition to Toutant between now and the second Signing Day next February.

Penn State’s Class of 2019 thus far (in order of commitment date)

OT Grant Toutant - Warren, Mich., (four-star)

LB Derek Wingo - Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., (four-star)

CB Josh Moten - Fort Washington, Md.,(four-star)

LB Curtis Jacobs - Owings Mills, Md., (four-star)

QB Micah Bowens - Las Vegas, Nev., (three-star)

OG Golden Achumba - Hyattsville, Md., (three-star)

DT Cole Brevard - Carmel, Ind., (four-star)

OG Reuben Adams - Woodbridge, Va., (three-star)

OG Nicholas Dawkins - Allentown, Pa., (three-star)