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Elite Transfer WR Spurns Pitt for Florida State

The Pitt Panthers will continue their search for productive wideouts.

Stephen Thompson

Elite Transfer WR Spurns Pitt for Florida State
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers lost four wideouts to the transfer portal and another to the NFL this season, leaving their ranks of pass-catchers thin. 

To try and address that hole in their offense, the Panthers have been vigilant in the transfer portal, looking for new players to help them right away. But one of the players they had hoped would do that, former Michigan State Spartan, Keon Coleman, is headed elsewhere and in fact, he'll be a star for a Florida State team that visits Pittsburgh this season.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a Power 5 program that was not interested in adding Coleman to their wide receiver corps. He was contacted by 59 schools, including Pitt, Georgia, Penn State, Oregon, Florida, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Michigan, Notre Dame and many, many more. 

Coleman, a former four-star recruit and top-20 player from Louisiana in the class of 2021, followed a wave of Spartans exiting the program after a wildly successful sophomore season. After waiting his turn for a year, Coleman burst onto the scene with a team-high 798 yards and seven touchdowns on 58 catches in 12 games. He has two years of eligibility remaining. 

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Stephen Thompson
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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