Full post coming, but it just got reported that Tra’Von Chapman has pulled the trigger a couple days earlier than expected and given Pitt a verbal.
Okay, I’m not saying Tra’Von Chapman gave his verbal to Pitt a couple days earlier to bring Pitt fans back from the deep end over recruiting. But… I’m not saying he didn’t.
Chris Peak at PantherLair.com has been teasing news all morning.
Yeah, today's probably a good day to spend some time on the site…
— Chris Peak (@PantherLair) June 28, 2012
And gets credit for breaking it first.
Four-star QB Tra'von Chapman has committed to #Pitt. http://t.co/5Sm1Wx8B
— Chris Peak (@PantherLair) June 28, 2012
Everyone knew he was going to verbal to Pitt, it was just a matter of when.
Chapman is ranked as a 4-star recruit on Rivals.com and Scout.com. On 247 and ESPN.com (Insider subs.) they put him at 3-stars.
Here’s some of the ESPN.com scouting report which is dated 10/24/11.
Chapman is a highly productive dual-threat quarterback that takes pride in clearly being a passer first, runner second. He is athletic and very consistent in his overall methods. We are not convinced he is quite as tall as his listed height, but he is well built and looks like a wide receiver. He is a shotgun, spread player that is extremely good on the move and a consistently productive deep ball passer. Possesses good arm strength and flashes the ability to put some heat on his throws if he needs to. Has extremely quick feet, stays active and does a nice job of creating passing windows with his mobility. He has adequate pocket presence, consistently buys second chances and appears comfortable throwing on the run.
His size is listed at 6-1 or 6-2 and 195 to 200 pounds.
That makes consecutive years that Pitt has reeled in 3/4-star QB recruits.
Obviously the comparisons will be made to Russell Wilson and what Chryst was able to do last year with Wilson at Wisconsin. Especially since Wilson was about the same height. It also points to Chryst’s position that you adapt to the players’ strength and not force them into a particular scheme. You can have a base, but adapt to what the player can do.
HTP
Hail to Pitt!
We may have two quality young QB’s and other’s on the way. For 2013 Savage could be perhaps be for Pitt what Wilson was for Wisconsin.
I am sad to hear about Brandon Lindsey but he is just too small to play the DE spot and just to slow to play the OLB spot at the NFL level. That awkard tweener size that is okay in the Big East but not in the AFC North.
Rankings in June do not matter. Nor do they matter in February. It’s all about wins and losses, unless you are from Penn State where sins trump wins for the last 25 years.
I do believe the big boys up front can be coached up by good coaches, which we have. Two examples immediately come to mind. WVU under Dickrod never had high recruits on the O-Line and Wisconsin under our on PC, never had highly rated recruits either. And the Badgers have had several O-linemen drafted in the 1rst round, several years in a row.
While it would have been nice to land the kid from Belle Vernon, it’s far from the end of the world.
haha Oakland & Pittsburgh probably intimidated the small town kid.
Look around Yinz guys n at! OSU just to the west, WVU just to the south, PSU to the east…
You criticize recruiting like we have been good or something. We haven’t! Our bowl have been bottom of the barrel, we had 4 head coaches in 13 months, we draw fans based on loyalty and not good football and certainly not winning and we haven’t been to a major bowl since the Fiesta and we were the national joke then!!
It is incumbent on you then to go out today and overpay for everything. Because that is what you ask of Chryst!
Yeah Chas…Chryst does have to coach up! Every Pitt fan out there, read this. It isn’t 1973! The world is filled with both overachievers and underachievers…more of the latter. Pitt has been the poster school for underachieving in football for 25 years.
Time to overachieve or “coach up” until we develop an attitude of winning.
It worked for VTech and WVU.
If one were to consider only high school ratings Pitt is overloaded at QB with high rated QB’s.
Myers has little experience because of his limited high school experience but has the size and arm strength and time to salvage his career. Savage has shown he can more than compete at this level. He has the size and arm strength if he can stay in shape and stay focused on his dream to play at the next level.
Chapman and possibly volychik can be the QB’s of the future. I see Chapman as having greater possiblities.
Next year may bring a another or higher rated QB. At least we are in the 4’s, Tino 3, Stull 3, Gonzalez 3.
That and Dion was a 2. So was Romeus.
Hale was a 4/5.
Give me a 2 star with a chip on his shoulder anytime.
Way to early to tell but Kincade in 2014 has the size for a D1 QB, and already is committed to Pitt.
Perhaps Pitt could start a complete reversal regarding the QB position.