South Bend, Ind. — Ty Dieffenbach dressed and participated in warmups for the first time in his young Pitt career Saturday afternoon ahead of a contest against Notre Dame.
He had to since Phil Jurkovec, the former starting quarterback and announced third-string quarterback, warmed up with the tight ends and caught passes from the quarterbacks.
It’s the next step in the “Is Phil Jurkovec a Tight End or not?” saga that started after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Noah Hiles reported that Jurkovec was practicing with the tight ends after being benched during the bye week. But Narduzzi initially denied the report.
But he changed his tune in the buildup to Notre Dame earlier this week.
“That’s not for me to decide what he’s doing, but he wants to play a little bit over there and he still doesn’t have a position change, but he’s played on kickoff returns, he’s on the punt team, he’ll pay anything,” Narduzzi said Thursday at his weekly news conference. “He’s going wherever we can get him in.”
It still seems unlikely that Jurkovec will see the field against Notre Dame as a tight end — which, of course, is a homecoming for Jurkovec after beginning his collegiate career with the Fighting Irish.
Pitt already doesn’t target Gavin Bartholomew enough, and with Karter Johnson, Malcolm Epps and Jake Renda all seeing the field at times this season, Jurkovec is likely TE5 or so. But maybe his work on kickoff and punt coverage is another story.
He has a large frame, saying before the season that he weighed in at 245 pounds, so there is the possibility that he could provide additional blocking on the edge.
This arrogant player needs no more coverage. Nobody cares about this first class loser.
This post reflects more on you than anyone else, and no I don’t care about Jurkovec at all.
It’s because of his piss poor play along with the crappy offensive coordinator, the teams in the situation it’s in.
Why is this news Karl?
was Phil such a good athlete that the coaches must find away to put him on the field? Just hard to understand this love and dedication for Phil by these coaches.
Time to move onto Yarnell. Vayair looks like Sam Fartman when we mentally destroyed him in the ACC Champioship game.
Thanks for the embarrassment Narduzzi. Your ignorance is boundless.
Weakest tackling I’ve seen this year. I’ve ever seen.
But the coaches make up for it by being stupid.
Now He puts in Yarnell!
Narduzzi, is an arrogant ignorant idiot.
Be he’ll start jerkoff next week
Heather:,what an exciting game we’ve extended Narduzzi’s contract,,, He’s a genius.