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Pitt OL Suffers Season-Ending Injury

Ryan Jacoby will be out for the season, leaving a big hole in the Pitt Panthers' offensive line.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt OL Suffers Season-Ending Injury
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers got some bad news this week, as a key piece of the 2023 team went down with a season-ending injury.  

One of the Panthers' top offensive linemen, Ryan Jacoby, has suffered a season-ending knee injury and will miss the remainder of the 2023 campaign, head coach Pat Narduzzi announced.

Jacoby had turned in a strong training camp with the Panthers this year and was in the thick of, if not leading, a battle to win starting reps at the outset of the season. 

In his place, Jason Collier Jr. has been elevated to starter at left guard on the Panthers' first depth chart of the season.

Jacoby was a blue-chip prospect coming out of high school in 2019 and played his first two seasons at Ohio State before transferring to Pitt in 2021. He saw the field in the final three games of that season as a reserve offensive lineman and started in the Peach Bowl against Michigan State. 

He returned in 2022 and saw action in all 13 games - five of which came in the form of starts as a tight end. Jacoby played primarily as a guard last season, but was being worked out as a tackle this year. 

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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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