Given the early recruiting by Coach Wannstedt and his staff, you knew that there would be at least one from the group of Juniors visiting this past weekend (hat tip to Joel for the early heads-up).

Franklin Regional High School junior tackle John Malecki made two choices this past weekend, and the Pitt football program may be the big winner in both cases.

Malecki decided to attend Pitt’s select junior day over Penn State’s junior day on Saturday. And then after Pitt offered him a scholarship, he accepted.
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He was an All-Greater Allegheny Conference first-team player on offense and defense.

Malecki is a 6’3, 270 lb kid. He has/had a lot of good teams interested in him, including Tennessee and Oklahoma.

So far, all the early commits are on the lines. While the early commits makes me a little nervous, as I have said before, maybe there is a method to this. Going after line players early is probably a little less risky then the skill positions. High school line players, in general, tend to be more diamond in the rough types.

Or I could just be trying to rationalize this.