A former Florida State and Oregon wide receiver is heading back west for the next stop in his college career.
Wide receiver Mycah Pittman has announced his new college destination. The 22-year-old wide receiver out of Tampa Bay, Florida, announced over the weekend that he will be playing the next part of his college career at Utah. He announced his decision via Twitter on Sunday.
Utah will be the third college that Pittman suits up for in his career. The former four-star prospect in the 2019 recruiting class has previously spent three years at Oregon and one year at Florida State.
The younger brother of former USC star and current Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr, the younger Pittman brother has recorded 70 receptions for 877 yards and five touchdowns over his four seasons.
This past season, Pittman had his best year yet while with the Seminoles. In 13 games, he posted 32 receptions for 330 yards and three touchdowns. He also was a primary punt returner for the Seminoles with 18 punt returns for 169 yards. He would earn All-ACC honorable mention honors as a specialist.
Pittman will join a Utah program that is coming off their third straight 10+ win season, not counting the COVID shortened 2020 season. The Utes, entering year 20 under head coach Kyle Whittingham were 10-4 last season and made their second-straight Rose Bowl appearance.
Notably, the Utes are set to return star quarterback Cameron Rising this upcoming fall. Rising is returning after suffering a torn ACL against Penn State in the Rose Bowl.
Former Oregon WR comes back to Pac-12, commits to Utah Utes
It has been an eventful couple of years for former Oregon Ducks’ wide receiver Mycah Pittman.
After starting his career in Eugene with the Ducks and playing for three seasons at Oregon, Pittman decided to skip out early on the 2021 season and enter the transfer portal in November, leaving the team a month before the season was over. Pittman cited a lack of utilization and a need for a change of scenery as the reason for his departure after catching 38 passes in the three seasons.
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Pittman landed at Florida State with the Seminoles under Mike Norvell and played for one season, where he saw a slight uptick in production — Pittman had 32 catches for 330 yards and 3 TD, all career highs — but apparently did not find the fit that he was looking for. At the end of April, Pittman once again entered the transfer portal, and announced on Sunday that he was committing to the Utah Utes, coming back out west to join the Pac-12.
Will the Utes be a fit in his fifth year of collegiate football? Time will tell.
Michael Pittman Jr. and his brother Mycah launched their podcast ‘Pittcrew’. Hilarity ensues.
Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr. launched the debut of his podcast titled “Pittcrew” with his younger brother Mycah, who is a fifth-year senior wide receiver at Florida State.
With the debut episode titled “QB Carousel,” the brothers discussed a bit about the quarterback class and how it relates to the Colts. While Mycah did his best to get actual answers out of his older brother about what the Colts will do, Michael Jr. put on a masterclass of dancing around the question in a very entertaining way.
There was even a moment in which Mycah asked his brother to choose between Lamar Jackson, Bryce Young or C.J. Stroud as his preferred quarterback.
To which the Colts wide receiver hilariously replied, “Okay, if I had to pick between the three, I’m going to trust whoever the Colts organization brings into my team. That’s what I’m going to pick!”
The brothers also dove into their lives growing up together with a father (Michael Pittman Sr.) who spent 10 years in the NFL as a running back.
The pair has undeniable chemistry, and the first episode was a very entertaining listen:
Oklahoma takes on Florida State in the Cheez-It Bowl. Here are five Sooners to watch come game time.
Oklahoma has arrived in Orlando and has been preparing for its matchup with the No. 13 Florida State Seminoles. The Seminoles represent one of the toughest teams Oklahoma will have faced this season and that’s only magnified by the fact that the Sooners will play without three starters on offense and one of their best defenders.
Starting tackles Anton Harrison and Wanya Morris will be out alongside star running back Eric Gray. The loss of defensive tackle Jalen Redmond is where we turn our focus.
Redmond, despite all the inconsistent performances by this defense, was one of the more disruptive forces throughout the season. Oklahoma takes on a very good Florida State offense that is led by dual-threat quarterback Jordan Travis and flanked by running back Trey Benson and wide receivers Johnny Wilson, Mycah Pittman, and Ontaria Wilson.
With no Redmond and a few other depth guys missing thanks to the transfer portal, Oklahoma will have its hands full. However, this opens the door for playmakers to step up on defense, which may provide a glimpse of Oklahoma’s defense in 2023 and beyond. Here are five defenders to watch as the Sooners take on the Seminoles.
Report: Oregon OC Kenny Dillingham helped convince Mycah Pittman to transfer to Florida State
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What do you do when the coach that was recruiting you to a certain school picks up and takes a job at the school you just left because you weren’t happy with your usage rate?
That’s a question that former Oregon Ducks’ wide receiver Mycah Pittman recently had to ask himself. Pittman announced mid-season that he was going to leave Eugene and enter the transfer portal, where he would later end up at Florida State under Mike Norvell.
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It was recently reported by The Tallahassee Democrat’s Curt Weiler that the departure of Kenny Dillingham, FSU’s former OC who left for the same job at Oregon, made Pittman hesitate for a second on his decision.
Mycah Pittman says he took a few extra days to decide after his main FSU contact, Kenny Dillingham, left to take the Oregon OC job.
During that time, he talked to Dillingham, who told him he should still come here because Norvell could use him well in his offense.
Everything arguably ended up in the expected destinations, with Pittman now in Tallahassee and Dillinghman up in Eugene. Still, it’s a bit interesting to note that Dillingham encouraged Oregon’s former WR to still continue on to Florida State rather than returning to the Ducks, where there is a severe need for receiver depth.
Opt-outs and transfers have changed what once looked like an extremely entertaining matchup between Oregon and Oklahoma in the Alamo Bowl.
This particular matchup would be vastly different if it were to be played in September.
Both Oregon and Oklahoma will be going into the Alamo Bowl a bit shorthanded. Opting out of bowl games or transferring out is becoming a common occurrence in college football and these two teams were not immune.
Oregon’s biggest loss will be defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux, who is expected to be a high first-round NFL draft pick in 2022.
Oklahoma benched its starting quarterback Spencer Rattler in the middle of the season, so he is currently looking for another school to finish out his collegiate career. The Sooners will also be missing their all-conference linebacker Nik Bonitto and his seven sacks, 19.5 in his career.
While both schools will still field teams and kick-off in San Antonio on Wednesday, it won’t look like the normal teams we’ve seen all year. Here are some of the players who won’t participate following opt-outs or transfers.
After leaving the Oregon Ducks with just a few weeks left in the season and entering the transfer portal, WR Mycah Pittman has found a new home.
Pittman announced via social media on Sunday night that he will be committing to the Florida State Seminoles for the upcoming season.
Florida State is a team that was targeting Pittman, led mainly by offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham, who is now the OC and QB coach at Oregon. There was a thought that Dillingham might bring Pittman back to Oregon once he came to Eugene, but it turns out that Pittman was still interested in FSU.
Oregon’s leading WR Devon Williams is the latest Duck football player to opt out of the bowl game and declare for the NFL draft.
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Oregon Ducks wide receiver Devon Williams has announced that he will forego his senior season and declare for the NFL draft.
Williams will also skip the Alamo Bowl in his preparations for the next level.
In the post, he thanked former Duck coach Mario Cristobal, passing game coordinator, and interim head coach Bryan McClendon and academic counselors.
Once a five-star recruit, Williams was considered the top athlete in the country when he committed to USC in 2018. In his one season as a Trojan, Williams played in all 12 games that season, catching four passes for 87 yards with a touchdown.
Williams then entered the transfer portal and it was thought the 6-foot-5, 207-pounder from Lancaster, Calif. was going to end up in Corvallis before settling on Eugene to be a Duck.
He spent two seasons at Oregon where he caught 50 passes for 843 yards and six touchdowns. Ironically, Williams’ best game was against the Beavers three weeks ago where he caught six passes for 110 yards and a touchdown.
With Williams opting out of the bowl game, the Ducks are suddenly thin at the position. Mycah Pittman transferred and Johnny Johnson III is injured. The top receiver remaining is freshman Kris Hutson and his 25 catches for 364 yards and one touchdown.
Mycah Pittman finally opened up about his decision to leave Oregon, noting a lack of usage and desire for a fresh start elsewhere.
Though there has been nothing but breaking news in the world of Oregon sports over the past few weeks, we got a chance recently to look back at one of the bigger stories with the Ducks football team that took place last month.
It doesn’t have to do with Mario Cristobal leaving, or Dan Lanning coming. It doesn’t concern a pair of embarrassing losses to Utah, or a flurry of recruits signing with the Ducks.
Instead, it’s an explanation from former Oregon WR Mycah Pittman on why he decided to leave the Ducks late in the season and enter the transfer portal.
Pittman took to his Youtube channel earlier this week and explained what went into his decision-making at long last. It revealed a lot about the player and the team as a whole.
“As you guys know, I wasn’t getting a fair share of targets,” Pittman said. “I wasn’t being utilized in the offense the way I was expecting, and the way I was wanting to. I felt like I had a great camp; I’ve had great camps throughout the years, period. Every single year, I always put up a great fall camp. Just to tell the coaches and show the coaches that I’m able to do a lot of great things for the program, and they can expect great things for me. Sadly, the season didn’t go the way I wanted it. It wasn’t like I wasn’t getting open.”
Pittman played in 7 games for the Ducks this year, grabbing 12 passes for 197 yards and 0 touchdowns. His Oregon career ended after three years with a total of 38 catches for 547 yards and 2 touchdowns.
“In reality, did I see anything getting better at Oregon? No, I didn’t. I know Cristobal just left the University of Oregon, but we had a head coach that believed in running the ball almost every single play, and as a receiver, it’s really tough,” Pittman continued. “I don’t mind blocking, and I feel like blocking is a great, key aspect of things for the running backs in setting them free, but we were a run-first operation, and they were going to continue to do that. Nothing was going to be changed.”
The Ducks are certainly a run-heavy team, averaging 38 attempts per game, compared to 28 passes per game. Only one player had more than 500 yards receiving, and only 4 players had more than 300 yards receiving, one of whom was a running back.
While Pittman says he knew that the Ducks would be this run-heavy, he says that early in the year he decided that he wanted to redshirt, knowing that he would likely transfer after the season was done. It was then that he was convinced not to redshirt, which he says he regrets.
“In the beginning of the season, probably game 2 or game 3 — I kept this between me and my coaches — I actually wanted to redshirt. I told B-Mac and Cristobal that I wanted to redshirt and I didn’t want to finish the season because I felt like I wasn’t being utilized, and I didn’t want to throw away my year of eligibility. … I was convinced that I shouldn’t redshirt, so I didn’t. That is a decision that I do regret. I should have redshirted.”
It wasn’t until later in the year against Washington State that Pittman reached his breaking point and decided that enough was enough.
“Where I met my breaking point was the Washington State game. I started and I played, and I played very well, but I think we ran the ball almost 40 times that game and we threw the ball like 20 times. I was in for a total of 6 pass plays, and 5 of them were check-downs to our running backs, and then one was a sack. That hurt my opportunities, and for a guy who wants to go to the NFL, you need to throw the ball for at least more than 6 times a game, or at least be able to be utilized for the 6 times per game.”
It is a revealing admission from Pittman, who says that he has high aspirations of making it to the NFL, but knows that he has no chance if his usage continues to be so low. While he says that a lot of teams have talked to him and tried to recruit him to come to their school, the sophomore WR doesn’t yet know where he will end up next year.
Where a few of the top pass catchers in the transfer portal are projected to end up.
The transfer portal is full of program-changing players that could propel a team from mediocrity to the top of the college football world.
Whether it be quarterbacks from the transfer portal like Joe Burrow leading one of the most prolific offenses of all time, or a receiver like Alabama’s Jameson Williams who just needed a chance to prove that he could be the best player at that position in the nation.
Schools like Texas, who are particularly weak in certain spots on the roster, are paying close attention to the portal to try and add immediate contributors to help turn around a program that has been struggling for over a decade.
There are a few talented receivers in the portal already. Multiple four-star prospects have decided to go elsewhere after a coaching change or for other reasons.
Here are where a few of the top receivers in the portal are projected to go via 247Sports’ crystal ball predictions and various media reports.
