Pitt Extends Offer to Speedy 2025 3-Star Wide Receiver

The Pitt Panthers landed a talented recruit from Dallastown, Pennsylvania last recruiting cycle and are now looking for another.

Last week, wide receivers coach Tiquan Underwood extended an offer to 2025 three-star wide receiver Michael Scott, the former teammate of Pitt freshman Kenny Johnson.

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The lightning-quick Scott now holds six Division-1 offers — Pitt, West Virginia, Maryland, Cincinnati, Temple and Toledo. That number will no doubt be increasing over the coming months but in the meantime, Scott is working hard on and off the field to make himself a complete player and one that can contribute immediately to whatever college he selects.

“My off-season is going really well,” Scott told Pittsburgh Sports Now. “I’m really focusing on getting bigger and to get ready for the upcoming season by doing things that can separate me and to take my game to the next level. Off the field, I’m trying to watch different receivers and how they do things so I can make a quicker transition from the high school to college level. I try and watch players that I feel I have a similar playing style to, like Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers. I watch and try and imitate him but at the same time, try and keep a lot of the things that have made me successful.

Courtesy Michael Scott

“As far as my training, something that I feel is really overlooked is short area quickness. A lot of people look at straight line speed but, in a game, there’s not a lot of times that you’re going to run a 100-meter dash. So, this off-season, something I’m really focusing on is my short area quickness and my ability to move quickly after the catch and not get tackled. I’m also working on being physical and getting ready for the hits that I know that I’m going to have to take after I make a catch across the middle from the slot.”

My junior year full season highlights!! Some of my highlights weren’t recorded on hudl

✅1200 yards
✅12 tds
✅4 interceptions
✅18 tackles @PRZPAvic @Coach_LMurphy @DTown_Football @MohrRecruiting @SeanFitzOn3 @RyanSnyderOn3 @TateRivals_ @EdOBrienCFB https://t.co/Mv3GkbET2a

— Michael Scott “Joystick”3⭐️ (@michaelscott_34) October 30, 2023

Looking at his in-game highlights, Scott has the skillset that would appear to standout in the passing game of new Pitt offensive coordinator Kade Bell. The Pitt staff must have agreed because he became one of the first junior receivers to pick up an off since Bell was hired. Scott went over his conversation with Underwood, who officially extended him the offer on Christmas Eve.

“I’ve always had a relationship with the University of Pittsburgh, even before I got the offer,” said Scott. “One of my best friends, Kenny Johnson, is at Pitt now and when he got the offer, they told me that they liked me. Coach Underwood was the one who offered me and when he did, he told me that we love you, we love your tape, and we want you here.”

Tiquan Underwood at Pitt Spring Game, 2023.

“Talking to Kenny, he’s told me that Coach Underwood is one of the realest coaches that you’re ever going to meet. I made an unofficial visit there last year and just talking to him and how many people were around him, he still made time to talk to me. That was a big thing for me and something that made a big impression on me. He still made time for me.”

“He’s one of the realest coaches that I’ve ever met. I can already tell that if I were to go there, he’d stick with me and be real with me,” said Scott. “That’s the biggest thing that I’m trying to focus on is to build a relationship with the coaches. I’m not focusing on getting every offer, I’m focusing on relationships and my major, which is going to be sports medicine and Pitt is the No. 2 sports medicine program in the country. I’m not just focusing on four years; I’m focusing on forty years.”

Scott is in contact with a number of programs and tells PSN that he’s set up upcoming unofficial visits to a couple of schools, although he went on to say that this list will increase over the upcoming weeks.

“I have two visits set up, but I know that I’ll be on more than two visits. On January 20th, I’ll be going to the University of Kentucky and on Feb. 3, I’ll be going to visit West Virginia University.”