11:13 AM ET
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH -- Pitt antiaircraft tackle Calijah Kancey, the ACC's Defensive Player of the Year, is skipping the Panthers' vessel game.
Kancey, a junior, alluded to a wellness contented in an Instagram post arsenic the main crushed down the decision.
"Thanks to the champion trainers successful the state astatine Pitt," Kancey said. "I cognize they volition assistance maine get backmost to 100% soon."
Kancey collected 7½ sacks and 14½ tackles for a nonaccomplishment successful 11 games for the Panthers (8-4). He is the archetypal Pitt subordinate to triumph the conference's highest antiaircraft grant since Aaron Donald successful 2013.
The 6-foot-1, 280-pound subordinate has been coy astir his intentions adjacent year, though the Miami autochthonal apt has worked himself up NFL draught boards implicit the past 3 months.
Kancey did accidental helium plans to assistance teammates prepared for immoderate vessel they mightiness beryllium headed to.
Pitt did not support the ACC rubric it won a twelvemonth agone but finished strong, winning 4 consecutive to extremity the play to travel successful 2nd to North Carolina successful the ACC's Coastal Division.
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