It’s a big weekend for Pitt football. Around 20 players came to Pittsburgh for the first weekend of official visits. It’s already turned out to be fruitful. Coach Pat Narduzzi fired off his Class of 2026 commitment signal on X not once, not twice, but four times on Friday afternoon.

WPIAL defensive tackle Lincoln Hoke took to his own social media to announce he had committed to the Panthers. About 20 minutes later, another player out of the WPIAL, John Curran III, announced he’d also be playing for Pitt come fall of 2026.

Hoke, a three-star out of North Allegheny High School, chose to stay in the Steel City over offers from West Virginia, Toledo, James Madison, New Mexico, Delaware, Buffalo, Akron, Kent State, Penn, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and Sacramento State.

He had a strong junio

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