Penn football grabs a tight end

After taking an official visit to Penn last weekend, class of 2012 tight end Ryan Kelly committed to the Quakers.

Kelly, who stands at 6-foot-4, 215 pounds, chose the Red and Blue over Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell, as well as Lehigh, Davidson and Bucknell. Though the senior could stand to add a few more pounds — Penn's TEs tend to weigh around 240 pounds, and All-Ivy Luke Nawrocki comes in at 250 pounds. But his height certainly fits well with tight ends coach Mark Fabish's group.

The Harriton High School (located in Bryn Mawr) star will graduate with his team's record for career reception, touchdown receptions (19) and yards.

Kelly's family has come a long way since his grandfather's days of being a trash man. "My grandfather was a trash man, and my family has gone from being a trash man to an Ivy Leaguer," Kelly told the Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch. "When my father told me that, I never thought of things that way. It’s where the roots of hard work came from, first my grandfather and now my father, and now me"