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Pitt Holds on to Heavily-Recruited DBs Shadarian Harrison, Jordan Bass

The Pitt Panthers were able to sign two good defensive backs despite late pushes from other schools.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt Holds on to Heavily-Recruited DBs Shadarian Harrison, Jordan Bass
Pitt Holds on to Heavily-Recruited DBs Shadarian Harrison, Jordan Bass /
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PITTSBURGH -- Late pushes from other Power 5 schools threatened to pull these two key defensive back commits away from the Pitt Panthers, but the coaching staff was able to lock them down over the last few weeks and keep both Jordan Bass and Shadarian Harrison in the 2023 recruiting class. Bass and Harrison made their decisions official by singing this week. 

Harrison, a three-star prospect from Lakeland, Florida, was being pursued hard by Miami, Oregon and Florida State in the closing weeks of his recruitment, but a late visit from Pat Narduzzi was enough to keep Harrison a Panther. He is considered a top-100 player in that talent-rich state and will keep Pitt's connection to the Sunshine State open. 

He wasn't the only highly-recruited defensive back that the Panthers had to fight to hang on to. Jordan Bass, an underrated three-star player from Hampton, Virginia, had been at the top of Pitt's board ever since they extended an offer last March. 

He was never a lock but visits in May and June did enough to earn a verbal from Bass - who had an all-ACC top five with Pitt alongside Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Virginia and Boston College. The Hokies and Tar Heels worked hard to flip him but were unsuccessful. 

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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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