Yesterday we looked at the four of the last ten QB recruits we have landed and it wasn’t that pretty. Today we’ll look at the last six QBs and because they are more recent, less Pat Bostick in ’07, we’ll probably remember more of what they did or failed to do for the team.
Remember we are looking at recruits and not transfers or walk-ons and the scores awarded are based on what they did as QBs here at PITT and not how they may have contributed in other way such as playing defense as in Gonzalez’s case.
Anthony Gonzalez, 2010 – This kid was loved by the PA HS football fans and PITT made a hard push to get him onboard beating out other schools like PSU, FSU, Oregon, Clemson and Maryland for his services. After taking a redshirt his first year Gonzalez played a lot on special teams and sparingly at QB. In line with his dual-threat reputation coming out of HS DW had him run the Wildcat a few times as a rsFR.
Of course, as is the inevitable fate of PITT QB recruits it seems, he ended up on defense in 2012 where he found a home and played well for us at the strong side linebacker position. Here is what Gonzalez thought about all the moving around from QB to H-Back to Safety to SLB.
Guess being suspended twice from the team didn’t hurt his playing chances much. The first time was for a drug bust and second for being a bad boy. I wonder if that is the first time a PITT player has been suspended by two different head coaches as this involved both Graham and Chryst. Maybe he’ll make it into our record books based on that. I don’t think even Elijah Fields pulled that trick off.
SCORE: C
