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Pitt Recruiting Notebook: Fast-Rising Michigan DB Picks Up Offer

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Stephen Thompson

Pitt Recruiting Notebook: Fast-Rising Michigan DB Picks Up Offer
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PITTSBURGH -- With the regular season over, the Pitt Panthers are well into the portion of their calendar dedicated to recruiting. Before preparation for the Sun Bowl begins in earnest, coaches are all over the country looking for the next crop of future Panthers.

Follow along here all day as Inside the Panthers keeps you updated on who Pitt is after.

3:30

Pitt extended an offer to a 2024 three-star linebacker Kari Jackson. Ranked by 247Sports as the No. 17 player in Michigan and No. 21 linebacker in the country, Jackson's recruitment picked up steam quickly during his junior year. Michigan, Penn State, Tennesee, West Virginia and Wisconsin are some of the many Power 5 offers he will choose from. 

3:15 PM

Indiana transfer AJ Barner has become a hot commodity in the transfer portal lately. He's heard from Michigan, UCLA, NC State and Illinois in addition to the Panthers about formal scholarship offers. He says he plans on visiting Pitt sometime this weekend. 

2:30 PM

Three-star Steel Valley safety Cruce Brookins, who visited Pitt this weekend, has the Panthers in his top-three alongside Syracuse and Cincinnati. 

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8:45 AM

Joseph Edwards, a four-star tight end from Buford, Georgia picked up a Pitt offer this weekend. He's the No. 25 player in the class of 2024 according to 247Sports and the Panthers will need to fend off Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, USC, Tennessee and a host of other college football blue bloods to win his services. 

7:00 AM

It looks like Pitt's newest quarterback, 2023 three-star Ty Diffenbach, enjoyed his visit to Pittsburgh this weekend. He posted some pictures from his time in the Steel City. 

According to reports from Chris Peak of Panther Lair, Diffenbach was joined by Jamari Johnson - a four-star tight end committed to Louisville and uncommitted three-star running back T.J. Harvison. Johnson seems less likely to be moved from his pledge easily but Harvison is a player to keep your eye on. 

Cruse Brooskins did also stop by practice this weekend. His visit comes almost immediately after he decommitted from Kent State and picked up a Pitt offer. Dylan Burnett, a four-star linebacker from nearby Imani Christian High School was there as well.

6:00 AM

Three-star Pitt safety commit Jordan Bass is a state champion for the second time in as many years. He and Phoebus High School won the Class 3 state title yesterday over Heritage High School by a final of 48-7. 

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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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