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Pitt Lands Three-Star 2025 QB

The Pitt Panthers have added a quarterback to their 2025 recruiting class.

Stephen Thompson

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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers have added a quarterback of the future to their 2025 recruiting class over the weekend, bringng a signal-caller from Oregon, Ohio to the Steel City.

Mason Heintschel, a three-star prospect out of Clay High School, announced on Twitter this weekend that he had become the second high school player to commit to the Panthers' newest recruiting class.

Heintschel is still early in his recruitment, having picked up just a handful of Division I offers in all. The first came from Toledo last August and he's added offers from Akron, Coastal Carolina, Kent State, Eastern Kentucky, Bowling Green, Liberty and Ohio as well. He visited Pitt this weekend as they went through spring practices and competed in their first intra-squad scrimmage of 2024.

Heintschel accounted for more than 3,000 total yards and 33 total touchdowns during his junior season. He's mobile, creative escaping pressure and has impressive arm strength to make throws on the run.

The Panthers already have a loaded quarterback room led by Nate Yarnell and Christian Veilleux and bolstered by freshmen Eli Holstein, Julian Dugger and Ty Dieffenbach waiting in the wings.

Pitt now has two commits in the 2025 recruitng class - Heintschel and three-star defensive end Trevor Sommers.

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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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