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Pitt Makes Top Seven for Four-Star LB William Love

The Pitt Panthers made the cut for a blue-chip 2024 linebacker.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt Makes Top Seven for Four-Star LB William Love
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers are a contender for a blue-chip linebacker out of New Jersey after he named them to his top seven this week. 

William "Willy" Love, a 6'2 and 195-pound backer from Camden, New Jersey out of Woodrow Wilson High School included Pitt among a list of finalists that included West Virginia, Penn State, Texas A&M, Syracuse, Maryland and Rutgers. 

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Love has visited Rutgers, Penn State, Syracuse and Maryland multiple times with additional stops at Florida State. He visited Pitt last May, when he also picked up an offer from the Panthers. 

He chose those seven out of list of offers that included Georgia, Oregon, Miami, Ole Miss, Nebraska, Boston College, Cincinnati, Michigan State, Charlotte, Temple and Liberty. 

Love is ranked as high as the No. 4 player in the state of New Jersey by Rivals and ESPN. ESPN also ranked him in the No. 14 linebacker and No. 173 overall prospect in the class of 2024. He is unanimously considered a top-10 player in his state. 

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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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