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Analyst Sees Pitt's Carter Warren as NFL Starter

Former Pitt Panthers tackle Carter Warren could be a full-time starter for the New York Jets.

Stephen Thompson

Analyst Sees Pitt's Carter Warren as NFL Starter
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PITTSBURGH -- Former Pitt Panthers offensive tackle Carter Warren saw limited action during his rookie season with the New York Jets and one NFL analyst believes the organization should consider him a future star. 

Damien Woody, an 11-year NFL veteran turned ESPN NFL commentator, said the Jets should consider Warren, who they took with the 120th overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, a future starter and give him the opportunity to be one. 

Woody believes Warren still has some developing to do but that he has all the necessary tools to be a starter at the highest level of football. 

Warren was coming off a serious knee injury that kept him out of the vast majority of his final season at Pitt when we joined the Jets as a fourth-round pick in 2023. He appeared in eight games and started five last season, and ultimately played 75% of the offensive total snaps he was available for. 

Warren has been a mainstay in the Pitt offensive line since 2019. He started 38 of his final 39 games at left tackle before a torn meniscus kept him sidelined for the final nine contests of 2022.

He was considered a prime draft candidate following his impressive 2021 campaign, but returned to school to better his draft stock. He was named a captain prior to the start of his fifth and final season in college football.

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STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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