2023 • REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE SEASON
Has appeared in one game on special teams.
2022 • REDSHIRT FRESHMAN SEASON
Awards: Named Penn State's Developmental Squad Offensive Player of the Year with Jim Fitzgerald...Earned PSU's Developmental Squad Special Teams Player of the Year...Won the team's Highest Academic Average Award...Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
Season: Did not see game action...Named the coaching staff's Developmental Squad Offensive Player of the Week twice (Auburn, 9/17; Michigan State, 11/26)...Earned the coaching staff's Developmental Squad Special Teams Player of the Week twice (Northwestern, 10/1; Maryland, 11/12).
2021 • TRUE FRESHMAN SEASON
Redshirt season.
HIGH SCHOOL
Attended Christoph-Probst-Gymnasium...Played for the Fursty Razorbacks club team, coached by Lukas Schmid...Was named a team MVP in 2019 and a the 2018 Defensive Player of the Year...Team won a pair of championships, as the squad went 13-0-1 during his senior year of high school and 11-1 during his junior year...Tallied 2,135 all-purpose yards with 22 touchdowns during senior season...Also logged five interceptions...Tallied 10 interceptions and three touchdowns as a junior...Also played soccer and baseball, was a rock climber and participated in track and field, gymnastics and parkour running.
PERSONAL
Full name is Jan Niklas Mahlert...Son of Marlies and Stephan Mahlert...Has a brother, Nils, and a sister, Lena...Aunt, Anne Riley was graduate student in 1999 and a faculty member from 2001-05...Uncle, Dr. Kevin Riley, was a graduate student at PSU from 1999-2004...Hobbies include computer programming, skiing, snowboarding, opera singing, guitar and piano...Has volunteered in the past as a climbing instructor...Majoring in aerospace engineering...Would like to be a rocket designer.