Three Pitt Panthers are on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot for the class of 2026.
Aaron Donald, Matt Cavanaugh and Craig "Ironhead" Heyward.
Donald is probably going to be a first-ballot guy. Cavanuagh and Heyward have been on the ballot for a while now, and with 79 players and nine coaches on the ballot at the FBS rank, I think both will continue to wait.
Pitt has 20 CFB Hall of Fame members right now, with Larry Fitzgerald joining the ranks most recently in the class of 2024, and the list includes: Ruben Brown, Len Casanova, Jimbo Covert, Averell Daniell, Tom Davies, Mike Ditka, Joseph Donchess, Tony Dorsett, Bill Fralic, Hugh Green, Marshall Goldberg, Johnny Majors, Dan Marino, Mark May, Herb McCracken, George McLaren, Robert Peck, Joe Schmidt, Joe Skladany, Herb Stein, John Sutherland, Joseph Thompson, Hube Wagner and Pop Warner.