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Pitt Picks Up Commitment from 2023 QB Ty Diffenbach

The Pitt Panthers have picked up their second quarterback of the day.

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Pitt Picks Up Commitment from 2023 QB Ty Diffenbach
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers have added another quarterback to their team. After landing Boston College transfer Phil Jurkovec from the transfer portal, the Panthers picked up a high school signal caller on the same day. 

Ty Diffenbach, a three-star player from Augora Hills, California, woke up a UNLV commit and will go to bed pledged to Pitt. He decommitted from the Rebels an hour and a half before announcing that he had flipped to become a Panther. 

Pitt offered Diffenbach after four-star quarterback Kenny Minchey, the one-time centerpiece of head coach Pat Narduzzi's 2023 class, decommitted and flipped to Notre Dame. The 6'5, 190-pound senior said he will take an official visit to Pittsburgh this weekend and enroll in January, according to Chris Peak of Panther Lair.  

He will join a quarterback room staffed by Jurkovec, redshirt senior Nick Patti, redshirt freshman Nate Yarnell and walk-ons Eli Kossanovich and Jake Frantl. 

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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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