2020 • REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE SEASON
Awards: Named Academic All-Big Ten.
Season: Did not see any game action...Named the coaching staff's Developmental Squad Special Teams Player of the Week twice (Michigan State and Illinois)...Named the coaching staff's Developmental Squad Special Teams Player of the Week following the Michigan game (11/28).
2019 • REDSHIRT FRESHMAN SEASON
Awards: Named Academic All-Big Ten.
Season: Did not see any game action...Named the coaching staff's Developmental Squad Offensive Player of the Week against Indiana (11/16).
2018 • TRUE FRESHMAN SEASON
Redshirt season.
HIGH SCHOOL
Three-time letterman for head coach Mike Mischler at Cathedral Prep...Played high school football with current Nittany Lion teammate Juice Scruggs...Was a team captain as a senior...Helped the Ramblers to back-to-back Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) Class 4A State Championships as a junior and senior...Earned all-region 6 honors as a junior and senior...Selected all-conference as a junior and a senior...Named all-city in 2016 and 2017...Had five touchdowns on 16 receptions before being injured as a senior...Registered 43 receptions and seven touchdowns as a junior...Played basketball and baseball...Was a member of National Honor Society.
PERSONAL
Full name is Henry Thomas Fessler...Son of Alison and James Fessler...Has three brothers, Billy, Charlie and James...Comes from a long line of Penn Staters, including mother, Alison, brother, Billy, grandmother, Patricia Weber Brown, great-grandfather, Herman Weber, and great-great-uncle, Robert Weber...Brother, Billy, played for the Penn State football team from 2014-17...Brother, Charlie, played at Northwestern (2015-18) and was a graduate student-athlete at Richmond (2019)...Great-great-uncle, Robert Weber, was captain of the Penn State football team and played from 1932-36...Hobbies include water skiing...Majoring in marketing..Would like to pursue a career CFO of a large company...Has volunteered at a soup kitchen, Key Club and in a mentor program...Born August 19, 1999 in Erie, Pennsylvania.