Spring Game - DBs

[9nationalchampionships]

The DBs should be better than last year with a year of growing and learning. Whitehead is the next star from the WPIAL and should have a great year.

Here are my starters for the SG:

CB - Maddox
CB - Mitchell
S - Webb
S - Whitehead


2 Terrish Webb 5-11/190 DB JR Clairton, Pa./Clairton
9 Jordan Whitehead 5-11/185 DB FR Aliquippa, Pa./Central Valley
11 Dane Jackson 6-0/165 DB FR Coraopolis, Pa./Cornell (Quaker Valley)
14 Avonte Maddox 5-9/170 DB SO Detroit, Mich./Martin Luther King
15 Reggie Mitchell 6-0/190 DB RS JR Pittsburgh, Pa./Shady Side Academy
20 Dennis Briggs 5-10/190 DB RS FR Wilkinsburg, Pa./Shady Side Academy
21 Malik Henderson 6-0/185 DB FR Plantation, Fla./Hallandale
29 Oluwaseun Idowu 6-0/185 DB RS FR Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny
32 Phillipie Motley 5-10/180 DB RS FR Columbus, Ohio/Hilliard Davidson
34 Mark Bernsdorff 5-11/185 DB SO Sylvania, Ohio/Wheaton (Ill.)
38 Ryan Lewis 6-0/195 DB RS JR Seattle, Wash./Eastlake
41 Jalen Williams 6-2/205 DB RS FR Newburgh, N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy
43 Jay Stocker 6-2/185 DB FR Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville Area
46 Rimoni Dorsey 6-0/190 DB FR Richmond, Va./Trinity Episcopal School


DBs were heavily recruited in the “16 class as DLs were as well. Hamlin, Coleman, Garner, Milller and Campbell will be here for Summer Camp. Hamlin may start at CB with Mitchell taking over the S for Webb. It will be nice to have options in June!
One of the by products of this group will be Special Teams! We will be very good on STs!

 

[tylersmyth]

Come summer camp, only one to be penciled in the Secondary would be Whitehead, the other 3 will be pushed by the Freshmen coming in

 

[9nationalchampionships]

Mitchell will start.

Come summer camp, only one to be penciled in the Secondary would be Whitehead, the other 3 will be pushed by the Freshmen coming in

 

[tylersmyth]

Watch out for Jay Stocker and you never know what Garner & Campbell might be able to do

 

[mehinpgh]

Will Lewis be on the roster in the fall?

 

[9nationalchampionships]

I have heard doubtful

Will Lewis be on the roster in the fall?

 

[raleighpanther]

Regardless of who will be in the deep 2 at the two CB spots, Pitt will be able to do something that Narduzzi really wants to be able to do and was not able to do last year. That is, to rotate his CBs, so that there are always fresh legs on the field, and fresh legs in the 4th quarter.

Last year, L Pitts had games where he got beaten and the coaches obviously had no faith in anyone else, so Pitts stayed in the game, usually forced to play the whole game. By mid-season, we will have 4-5 guys who can play at a high level who will be seeing the field.

 

[NewKen2013]

Honestly, the guy in most looking forward to seeing is Henry Miller.

 

[Farnox]

I would think that the freshman redshirted last year should start to have an impact. Henderson, Stocker and Jackson.

 

[passedout]

Hamlin starts from Day 1. I think Coleman will get significant time too as Freshmen. I liked the Stocker kid potential out of HS, the others not so sure about. There will definitely be some competition, and talent finally.... the cream will rise to the top. I love how the staff is putting together the secondary unit and DL.

 

[PHATWOOD]

Yeah, Hamlin has to see the field. Looking at what Pitt has in the secondary right now it's not good and there's little good depth if someone got hurt. Hamlin needs early PT because it's likely the coaches promised him that throughout the recruiting process, and it's helpful in the recruiting race to show top prospects that they can play from day one if they have the chops.

Pitt just isn't in a position where they can keep a guy like him off the field for a year - and it makes no sense to use him sparingly if you are going to burn a year of his eligibility. Goes without saying in today's college football that if a guy is good enough he's gone as soon as he can get the paycheck. When you recruit elite talent you might as well get all you can from them until that time.