National Signing Day 2014: Breaking Down Pitt’s First Six Signees
By Matt Shetler
Dennis Briggs, Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Briggs is a 5-foot-11, 190-pound athlete from Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh. He chose Pitt over his only other Division I offers, Buffalo and Toledo.
He isn’t ranked by any scouting services and is an athlete that can play running back or safety. He’s a tweener who will likely just be slotted wherever Pitt needs him.
Despite not being ranked, Briggs has excellent speed and showed great vision as a running back.
RB Qadree Ollison, Canisius High School, Niagara Falls, N.Y
The Buffalo area product should be one to watch as I liked the early commitment of Ollison.
The three-star recruit has great size and picked Pitt over Wisconsin and Penn State.
Scout ranks him as the nation’s 40th-best running back and Rivals has him as New York’s fifth-best player overall and top running back in that state.
He also had offers from Iowa, Maryland, Boston College and Syracuse.
I will take a look at the next six Pitt recruits in a post later this afternoon: