All Pitt 105: CB Shadarian Harrison Has Bright Future

All 105 is a Pittsburgh Sports Now series profiling each of the 105 members of the Pitt 2024 training camp roster. 

Shadarian Harrison, a redshirt freshman cornerback from Lakeland in Lakeland, Fla.

2023 season: Harrison redshirted and didn’t play during his true freshman campaign last season

Stats: Harrison has not recorded any stats during his brief Pitt career

Camp outlook: Harrison is going featured into the competition for the starting cornerback rotation in 2023, and with a strong fall camp, he could make some noise. But he’s still truly integrating into the defensive system

Projected role: Harrison is still one of the youngest cornerbacks in the room, but he’s one of the most naturally gifted in the room. Still, he appears to be a year or so away from making a major impact defensively

Shadarian Harrison (6-foot-1, 190 pounds) was a major recruiting win for Pitt down the stretch, initially securing his commitment over Charlotte, Colorado, Connecticut, Eastern Kentucky, Georgia State, Illinois, Iowa State, Jacksonville State, Louisville, Nebraska, Oregon State, USF, Temple, Tennessee, Toledo, Vanderbilt, Western Michigan and West Virginia. And he stayed locked in even when the in-state schools circled late.

He didn’t see the field last season during his true freshman campaign, not with a deep, veteran unit before him, but he’s earned praise from the coaching staff since well before he actually arrived on campus.

“It was one of those places that he said, I gotta get in,” Pat Narduzzi said on National Signing Day in 2022. “And, you know, I wanted to get in the end of October, November. Whenever that open weekend was. But this kid is the best DB on the football team. Okay. There’s another DB on that team that might be ranked the number one DB in the country. We got the number one DB in the country in Shadarian Harrison, without a doubt, we’ll see where it all plays out in four years.”