PITTSBURGH
Editor’s note: Every day, from now until Penn State football’s Class of 2017 reports to campus June 24, we’ll highlight a different one of the Nittany Lions’ 17 incoming signees. Today is Day 1 of the 17-day series.
Wearing his father’s Penn State letterman’s jacket, C.J. Thorpe sat a few steps away from Pittsburgh’s Oakland campus beaming cheek-to-cheek.
A blue-chip, bruising offensive lineman from WPIAL powerhouse Central Catholic, Thorpe’s high school is on Fifth Avenue, just down the street from the Cathedral of Learning and Pitt’s bookstore. He sees Pitt students walking around all the time and is friends with plenty of future Panthers.