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Pitt will wear ‘A.O.’ stickers on helmets to honor Alex Officer

Pitt head football coach Pat Narduzzi announced on Thursday that the Panthers will wear helmet stickers with “A.O.” on them in honor of former Pitt offensive lineman Alex Officer during his battle with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. Officer was diagnosed last month.

“On our helmets, we’re going to have a big ol’ sticker with ‘A.O.’ on it for Alex Officer,” Narduzzi said during a press briefing. “It’ll be a special sticker for him, in honor of him, so we can keep him in our thoughts as we run on that field. So we’ll be thinking about A.