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Offense SE Jonathan Baldwin, FL Cedric McGee OR Oderick Turner, LT Jason Pinkston, LG Joe Thomas, C Robb Houser, RG John Malecki, RT Lucas Nix, TE Nate Byham, QB Bill Stull, TB Dion Lewis, FB Henry Hynoski. Defense LE Jabaal Sheard, DT Mick Williams, NT Gus Mustakas, RE Greg Romeus, SLB Greg Williams, MLB Adam [...]

Dave Wannstedt is known to favor experience, so it’s not normally a surprise to see the Pitt coach pick an upperclassman over an unproven. When the Panthers announced their depth chart for Saturday’s season opener against Youngstown State, though, two veterans pulled off upsets by winning starting jobs over their more heavily hyped counterparts. Senior [...]

To paraphrase the immortal words of Dennis Green, Bill Stull is what we thought he was. That’s why he took the (darn) field. If you want to crown him, then crown his … Well, I think you get the idea. Bill Stull has been crowned Pitt’s starting quarterback for the season opener for the third [...]

If I was writing in my diary while wearing a red shirt (I prefer blue), I could fill this space by giving you countless top-10 lists involving the same 10 players, just in a different order under different categories. Instead, you’ll get another practice report. The Panthers are holding their final two-a-day of training camp, [...]

Here are some Pitt football notes from Trib sports reporter John Grupp, who filled in for Kevin Gorman on Tuesday. • Tuesday was a busy day at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex on the South Side. On one field, Ben Roethlisberger had returned to practice, throwing darts to Santonio Holmes. On the adjacent football field, [...]

The Panthers conducted perhaps their most entertaining and exciting offensive practice of training camp this afternoon. Sorry I can’t tell you about it. There are certain things we are privy to watching in practice but are not permitted to report, and offensive formations and gimmick plays are primary among them. So, I can’t share what [...]

If the Panthers were to play today, as Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt said, Joe Thomas would be the starter at left guard. Yet almost every time the first-team offense takes the field, including Monday’s morning session, Chris Jacobson lines up at left guard. What does that mean? That Pitt coaches want Jacobson to be the [...]

After the second scrimmage of training camp, Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt allowed his team a much-needed recovery day by giving the Panthers a non-contact practice in helmets and shorts Sunday afternoon. “We changed up the pace a little, but I think we needed this,” Wannstedt said. “This is just what the doctor ordered, coming out [...]

The one thing you have to understand about a controlled scrimmage is that the play-calling can and will be manipulated by the coaching staff, which makes training camp scrimmages no different than the dog-and-pony show in the spring called the Blue-Gold Game. So, for those hoping that the second scrimmage would create separation in the [...]

If the season were to start Saturday, as Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt is wont to say, the Panthers would have their starting tailback. Dion Lewis emerged from spring drills as the frontrunner, and despite competition from since-suspended redshirt sophomore Shariff Harris, redshirt freshman Chris Burns and freshmen Jason Douglas and Ray Graham, Lewis never gave [...]