Pitt will likely be receiving an official go to from Jalon Thompson on the finish of June.

Thompson — a 6-foot, 180-pound three-star security at Olympia Excessive in Orlando, Florida — introduced that he will likely be making an official go to to Pitt from June 22-24.

Locked In‼️ @ARCHIECOLLINS_ @coachcsanders @CoachTimSalem pic.twitter.com/P4uXrHYAq4

— Jalon “JT” Thompson (@_4Jalon) Might 29, 2023

Pitt jumped into the fold for Thompson simply this month, with Tim Salem extending an official supply on Might 9.

“It feels nice,” Thompson advised PSN earlier this month. “It’s an excellent defensive program, and so they have a very good defensive scheme, and so they prefer to compete with the highest colleges being within the ACC, and it feels good.”

Pitt joined the likes of Cincinnati, FAU, Georgia Tech, Iowa State, Kansas, Louisville, Maryland, Minnesota, Ole Miss, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Penn State, Pitt, Rutgers, Purdue, USF, UCF, Vanderbilt and West Virginia in extending a proposal.

Thompson had been in communication with Pitt’s teaching workers since his sophomore season at Olympia, and it’s been constant communication since Archie Collins and Cory Sanders have began speaking to him.

In speaking to Collins and Sanders, who see him as a security proper now, and who’ve additionally been instructing him increasingly more about Pitt with every name, they’ve been very complimentary of a specific attribute of his.

“Velocity,” Thompson mentioned. “They actually love the pace as a result of they’re a really bodily staff. They prefer to play a whole lot of man press, and so they can use my pace for that.”

Thompson does a little bit little bit of all the things at Olympia, taking part in cornerback, security, nickel and even linebacker if known as upon, and it’s all of the pursuit of serving to the Titans win. His fluidity and flexibility are what makes him stand out to coaches proper now, a minimum of in his eyes. He does like dropping again in protection to play that centerfielder function although, choosing off passes and taking them again to the home.

As a junior at Olympia final season, Thompson recorded 17 tackles (9 solo), a team-high two interceptions and served as a key kick returner for the Titans.

247Sports charges him because the 622nd-ranked recruit within the class (59th-ranked security and the 92nd-ranked recruit from Florida) whereas Rivals charges him because the Forty seventh-ranked security and the 89th-ranked recruit from Florida — holding a 5.7 Rivals Ranking.

On3 charges Thompson because the 603rd-ranked recruit within the class (Forty third-ranked security and the 67th-ranked recruit from Florida).

Thompson will likely be in UCF this week, and he has an official go to scheduled for North Carolina the next weekend. Pitt, with doubtless his closing official go to of June, has labored its means into rivalry.

“I really feel excellent about them,” Thompson mentioned. “They actually care in regards to the athlete as an individual in addition to on the sphere, they care about relationships. They’re not speaking simply to be speaking, they’re very simple and trustworthy. I like that about them.

“I’d say they stand in a fairly good place. Speaking with the coaches for some time and actually attending to know them, I’d say they’re in an excellent place.”