Okay, so Pat Devlin is going to Miami (hat tip, Jamie). At the risk of coming off as bitter or something, I never got a sense that Pitt was seriously one of his top picks.

Pitt doesn’t have a lot of slots left so I think they will only take one more QB recruit. If I had to guess, I’d say they would go with Dexter Davidson, from Florida, who has also been getting help from Dan Marino. He has an official visit to Pitt scheduled for the Notre Dame game.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Joe Thomas’ verbal to Pitt.

Thomas, who will be entering his senior season at the Catholic school in Lakewood, was recruited by Pittsburgh as a guard. However, after playing right guard alongside Boone last year, Thomas said he will probably move to left tackle to help the overall structure of the Eagles’ line.

“The coaching staff at Pittsburgh was incredibly down to earth,” Thomas said. “They made me feel right at home.”

The comfort zone he developed with Panthers new head coach Dave Wannstedt and his staff is why Thomas passed on his original plan to wait until the end of his senior season before making his choice.

Among the other major-college programs pursuing him were Boston College, Michigan State, Cincinnati, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Bowling Green and Miami of Ohio.

Rated by Ohio High Magazine this spring among the top 75 senior prospects in the state, Thomas said he would like to major in studio art or communications.

What encourages me about that list of other schools is that most of those schools have been doing a very good job at identifying talent on the lines.