On a busy recruiting weekend with 14 prospects making official visits to campus, Pitt landed six verbal commitments in an approximate span of 24 hours that ended Saturday night.
What does it mean?
Before Lakeland, Fla., defensive back Shadarian Harrison triggered the commitment blitz Friday, Pitt’s two-man 2023 recruiting class was ranked No. 78 in the nation by Rivals.com. By the time, coach Pat Narduzzi and his staff called it a day, Pitt had six more verbal commitments — all rated 3-stars by Rivals — and had vaulted to No. 22. The class is ranked third in the ACC behind only No. 10 Louisville and No. 12 Wake Forest.
The list included Harrison, cornerback Brice Pollock of Snellville, Ga.; safety Shelton Lewis of Stockbridge, Ga.; wide receiver Kenny Johnson of York; defensive tackle Isaiah Neal of Baltimore; and defensive end Antonio Camon of Tampa, Fla.
Harrison has scholarship offers from 20 schools. He played quarterback and defensive back last season for Kathleen High School, competing in Florida’s second-highest classification. He rushed for 844 yards and six touchdowns and threw for 370. Harrison is likely to play cornerback in college.
At 6-foot-2, 175 pounds, Harrison has the size Narduzzi seeks in his cornerbacks and joins a long line of past and present Pitt defensive backs from Florida, including Damarri Mathis, Brandon Hill, P.J. O’Brien, Marquis Williams, Jahvante Royal and Noah Biglow.
Harrison has offers from Power 5 schools Tennessee, West Virginia, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa State, Louisville, Oregon State, Nebraska and Vanderbilt.
This one makes six in less than a day https://t.co/ilk3ze7y2V
— Jerry DiPaola (@JDiPaola_Trib) June 4, 2022
Johnson (6-1, 185) is ranked the No. 16 overall prospect in Pennsylvania and No. 76 wide receiver in the nation by Rivals. He has offers from Boston College, Penn State, Louisville, West Virginia and Virginia Tech.
I would like to say thank you to all of the coaches that haven taken a chance on me and have given me the opportunity to play for their program…
With that being said,
I am 100% committed…hail to Pitt????????@TiUnderwood @Pitt_FB @CoachDuzzPittFB pic.twitter.com/C2j5rLjVMc
— Kenny Johnson (@Kennyjohnson05) June 4, 2022
Pollock (6-1, 180) has 28 scholarship offers, including from Georgia Tech, Penn State, Michigan State, West Virginia and North Carolina. He is ranked the No. 54 cornerback in the nation and No. 42 prospect in Georgia.
1000% committed !!! @ARCHIECOLLINS_ @CoachDuzzPittFB @PghSportsNow @Pitt_FB @coachcsanders @RecruitGeorgia @ChadSimmons_ @Mansell247 @StockbridgeFoo2 @StockbridgeHFC @PinkstonTodd @On3Recruits pic.twitter.com/kdU5aJu2J0
— Shelton Lewis (@SheltonLewis14) June 4, 2022
1000% Commited let’s work @CoachDuzzPittFB @coachcsanders @ARCHIECOLLINS_ @CoachPartridge @Coach_Manalac @coachierulli @FootballShiloh @TrellJones203 @allkash95 @_ShilohTrack pic.twitter.com/tiZF7Qe813
— Brice Pollock (@PollockBrice) June 4, 2022
Neal (6-3, 270) chose Pitt over offers from Georgia Tech, Louisville, Duke, Michigan, Ohio State, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech and West Virginia and several others. He is ranked No. 9 overall in Maryland and the No. 32 defensive tackle in the nation.
Camon (6-3, 250) is ranked No. 71 overall in Florida and the 38th strongside defensive end in the nation. He has offers from Penn State and West Virginia, plus seven other ACC schools, including Florida State and Wake Forest.
100% committed???????? thank you to all the schools that recruited me, and gave me an opportunity to continue the game I live at their institutions. Special thank to my new Pitt family!! #H2P @RivalsFriedman @SWiltfong247 @ChadSimmons_ pic.twitter.com/y3Vjb5CYYW
— Ghost (@IsaiahNeal99) June 4, 2022
Done Deal.
110% COMMITTED????????#H2P@CoachDuzzPittFB @CoachPartridge @coachcsanders pic.twitter.com/upu51QaVKu— “CAMON!” (@AntonioCamon1) June 4, 2022
Lewis (5-11, 180) has offers from Boston College, Duke, Georgia Tech, Louisville, North Carolina and N.C. State.
Before the weekend commitments, Pitt had secured verbal commitments from quarterback Kenny Minchey of Hendersonville, Tenn., and wide receiver Zion Fowler of Jersey City, N.J. Both are also rated 3-star prospects by Rivals.
All commitments are unofficial until prospects sign national letters of intent in December.
