
Pitt’s long, lean DL with walk-on grit and upside
Julian Desiré is a 6-foot-3, 215-pound redshirt freshman defensive lineman for Pitt whose profile is built more on developmental upside than box-score volume. Pitt lists him as a Uniondale, N.Y. native who joined the program as a walk-on and redshirted, which suggests persistence, coachability, and a real underdog engine. At his size, he looks like a projectable edge/line piece rather than a finished product—worth caring about if your team values length, toughness, and room to grow.