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Pitt Loses Four-Star RB Commit to Syracuse

The Pitt Panthers lost a highly-rated player from their 2024 recruiting class.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt Loses Four-Star RB Commit to Syracuse
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers lost one of the more highly-rated players from its 2024 recruiting class a little more than a week before National Signing Day. 

Four-star Pitt running back commit Yasin Willis took an official visit to Syracuse this past weekend to meet with newly-minted head coach Fran Brown and his coaching staff. That visit led to an eventual flip from the Panthers to the Orange. 

Willis is rated as high as a four-star prospect by Rivals, who also has him pegged as the No. 1 player in the state of New Jersey. Three of the four other major recruiting services consider him a three-star player. He originally chose Pitt over the likes of Penn State, South Carolina, Michigan, Ole Miss, Nebraska, Virginia Tech, Louisville, West Virginia and others. 

Willis rushed for more than 1,000 yards in both his sophomore and junior seasons and combined to score 26 touchdowns over that span. He finished his senior year with 567 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns on the way to first-team All-County honors. 

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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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