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New Jersey's Top Prospect Schedules Visit to Pitt

Yasin Willis, the No. 1 player in New Jersey, will visit Pitt next month.

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New Jersey's Top Prospect Schedules Visit to Pitt
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers will have an important visitor on campus next month, when the top prospect in New Jersey makes his second trip out west to see head coach Pat Narduzzi and the rest of the coaching staff. 

Yasin Willis, a four-star tailback from Montvale, New Jersey who attends St. Joseph's Regional High School - the alma mater of former Pitt quarterback Nick Patti - will be in Pittsburgh during the second weekend of June. 

This will be Willis' second trip to the Steel City in the past two months. He was in town for his first visit in mid-April. Willis also visited South Carolina for their spring game after visiting Columbia in the fall for a regular season game. He has also visited Rutgers and will return the week before coming to Pittsburgh. 

Willis is considered a four-star prospect and the No. 1 player in New Jersey by Rivals, as well as the No. 11 running back nationally. ESPN, On3 and 247Sports rate him as a three-star, with 247Sports ranking him as high as the No. 10 player in his state. 

Willis holds offers from Syracuse, Penn State, South Carolina, Michigan Louisville, Ole Miss, Nebraska, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Virginia Tehc, Maryland, West Virginia and Illinois, among others. 

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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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