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Pitt Bringing Back Freshman LB in 2024

The Pitt Panthers are keeping another key piece of the 2023 recruiting class in Pittsburgh.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt Bringing Back Freshman LB in 2024
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers will keep another one of their standout true freshmen from the 2023 recruiting class in Pittsburgh for the coming season. 

Alliance 412, the prefered NIL collective of Pitt athletics, announced this week that Jordan Bass will be back in blue and gold for his sophomore season after getting his feet wet this past fall. 

Bass, a consensus four-star recruit coming out of Pheobus High School in Virginia last year, chose Pitt over the likes of Penn State, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Ole Miss and others. 

He immediately played a massive role on special teams for the Panthers in 2023, blocking a pair of punts - one of which was returned for a touchdown - before the bye week. He slowly earned a role in the defense and made the first start of his career against Wake Forest, when regular starter Solomon Deshields went down with an injury. Bass totaled 11 tackles, two for a loss, in 10 games played this past season. 

He's expected to take on a much bigger role in 2024 with Bangally Kamara headed to the transfer portal. 

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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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