He then stuck the landing and ran past both for the score. I didn't ask anybody to get fired or anything. 32 like his father. A running back is all Pittman Jr. -- who was the 34th overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft for the Indianapolis Colts -- wanted to be since his mother put him in Pop Warner at age 6. That's what he expected. "I'm not asking for anybody to be fired. You're just not going to be,'" Michael Pittman Sr. recalls saying. "I think in any other year, he's a first-round pick," USC coach Clay Helton said. Pittman also has an NFL pedigree as the son of Michael Pittman Sr., a former NFL running back. Instead, he played on four special-teams units. I learned my lesson though after ranking Hakeem Butler as the #1 receiver last year and now one of the things I look for is whether a player broke out before his junior season. Pittman Sr. went to Twitter to voice his displeasure over his son's lack of playing time following an embarrassing 49-14 loss to Notre Dame in October 2017. "I handled it the best way that I possibly could, but I felt like in the beginning I didn't feel like they were utilizing Michael's talent to the fullest," Pittman Sr. said. His message often was, "If you can get off my press coverage at the line of scrimmage, you can get off anybody's press coverage in high school. ( Log Out /  But Pittman's father saw his son growing too tall to play running back. He rushed for 5,627 yards and 25 touchdowns during his 11-year career that also featured stops in Tampa and Denver. Of course, my rankings today will not look like my rankings by the time the draft comes around and Pittman could rise considerably over the next four months. After the catch, Pittman does not want to be tackled. That's something I learned from my dad.". It wasn't that. "I've been around football for a long time and when you see something that's not working -- and I'm not here to talk about anybody else's job -- I support everybody on USC. But if I'm making routine catches or plays, I don't feel like I have to get up and act a fool. A play Pittman made against Utah illustrates all of this perfectly. Pittman Jr. brought a 50-gallon fish tank into the receiver's room last season, and they added fish every time they got the upper hand on defensive backs, including the ones on their own team in practice. Change ). The younger Pittman was 6-4 by the time he enrolled at USC. He felt like I didn't believe in his ability. Pittman Sr. collected 9139 YFS and 33 total touchdowns overall. "Just in case somebody over there at #USC forgot what they had in my son," he wrote in another tweet. He didn't want to listen to his father, even though the elder knew a lot more about football than his son. Michael Pittman Jr.'s NFL draft profile (0:44). Standing 6-foot-4, weighing in around 220 pounds, Pittman has the prototypical WR1 size NFL teams covet and there’s a little Kenny Golladay to his game. "He told me one day I'd be one of the best college receivers in the nation," Pittman Jr. said. He played college football at USC, where he was named a consensus second team All-American as a senior, and was selected by the Colts in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft.He is now engaged to his long time girlfriend Kianna Galli. His mindset of being a blue-collar worker and doing the dirty work as a receiver was invaluable to our football team.". The elder Pittman was 6-foot and 225 pounds in his 11-year NFL career. • Raiders' Vegas debut vs. Saints on MNF. He wore No. • Experts pick best matchups, big winners It boiled over with the frustration. There is some cause to be skeptical, however. He will be able to out-physical and out-leap defenders as an effective possession receiver and redzone target at the next level. Mike falls right in line with JuJu Smith-Schuster, Robert Woods, Marqise Lee and Nelson Agholor. Chase and Lamb, of course, had the benefit of catching passes from senior Heisman contenders, Joe Burrow and Jalen Hurts, respectively. If you ask him, if we say, 'We touch it,' he'll follow with, 'We catch it.' There's no way I would go to the NFL and do that now.". "He got pretty pissed off at me. So I don't celebrate things I should do. I'm just asking for them to give my kid the same opportunity. But it's really from his playing experience. 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Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. He Mossed two defenders, leaping high over them and hauling in the catch at a height that no one but Pittman himself could’ve even gotten a hand on it. Coming out of high school, Michael Pittman Jr. was a highly-recruited four-star prospect who made several All-American teams, had 81 receptions for 1990 yards and 24 touchdowns his senior year of high school, and, per 24/7, was the #8 receiver in his class. Playing up by the rim.". They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and Michael Jr. is ready to follow in his father’s NFL footsteps. He won a Super Bowl in 2002 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and had five straight seasons with at least 1100 yards from scrimmage during the prime of his career. Michael Pittman Jr. (born October 5, 1997) is an American football wide receiver who playes in the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He fights for yards and employs a solid stiff arm to keep defenders away. One positive from this, though, is that Pittman showed gradual improvement each season before his big breakout. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I just saw the future before he could.". • Bucs add Brown to maximize Brady's window Pittman Sr. was a fourth-round pick by the Arizona Cardinals in 1998. He finished 2019 as one of the nation’s best receivers and was recently named a Biletnikoff Award finalist alongside LSU’s Ja’Marr Chase and Oklahoma’s CeeDee Lamb despite playing with a true freshman QB for most of the year. He had four games of at least 146 yards receiving, including a 10-catch, 232-yard performance against Utah last season. • Week 7 takeaways: Big day for Baker, Rodgers, "After the game [I told] him, 'Son, you're not going to be a running back in the future. He was one of only four receivers in the FBS to have at least 100 receptions last season. He worked pre-practice and post-practice, creating one-on-one situations and going up and having natural-catch ability. You can find me on Twitter @thedevydirtbag, and you can find more information on Michael Pittman Jr. here. He won a Super Bowl with the Bucs -- rushing for 124 yards in the victory over the Raiders -- and played on teams that featured some of the best coaches and future coaches in the NFL, such as Jon Gruden, Sean McVay and Mike and Kyle Shanahan. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Those words were a crushing blow, not what the teenager expected to come out of his father's mouth. Pittman Sr. played college ball at Fresno State and was a 4th-round draft selection. "He asked me what he had to do better for senior year and I told him he was 6-4, 220 pounds -- anytime we have a one-on-one matchup, the ball was going up to him and he had to make a play," Helton said. ", "I was very hard on my boys," Pittman Sr. said. Pittman Jr.'s "every little thing counts" mindset will fit in with the Colts. "I learned that from Kobe Bryant," Pittman Jr. said. • Brady's Bucs debut vs. Brees, Saints This included three straight games of at least 11 receptions and 100 yards to close out the regular season, as well as a 232-yard, 2 touchdown performance against one of the nation’s better defenses in Utah. "He'll bring it up an, y time we're talking about old stories. "He is my absolute idol and you never saw Kobe sink a 3 and go crazy like it's something special. That transitioned them into becoming top athletes in high school.". Pittman Jr. in 2019 was a finalist for the Fred Biletnikoff Award, which goes to the top receiver in college, after finishing with 101 catches for 1,275 … Me and his mother's patience have ran out," Pittman Sr. wrote in one tweet. That's how I am. It really didn't become a big deal until I was in high school, and then it really hit me that my dad played 11 years as an NFL running back, which is almost unheard of.".

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