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Transfer QB Commits to Pitt Football

A signal-caller from the Ivy League is taking a step up to the Power Five.

Stephen Thompson

Transfer QB Commits to Pitt Football
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers added a fourth scholarship quarterback to their roster this week. Derek Kyler, a graduate transfer from Dartmouth College who took an official visit to Pitt on Tuesday, committed to the Panthers on Wednesday morning and made a public announcement later that day. 

Kyler, who spent four years at Dartmouth, completed 69% of his passes for 4,409 yards and 42 touchdowns to just six interceptions over 30 games in a Big Green uniform. He owns the Dartmouth record for career completion percentage and earned second-team All-Ivy League honors from Phil Steele in 2018. 

Kyler has one year of eligibility left and will spend it in a Pitt quarterback room that already features three scholarship signal-callers. USC transfer Kedon Slovis and veteran Panther Nick Patti are assumed to be the front runners for the starting job and sophomore Nate Yarnell fell in behind those two. 

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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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