I'm surprised no one brought this up. Since Blair is a starter and 2 of the 3 suspended are starters and 2 of the 3 are suspended for 3 game, I would have thought this board would have picked up on this article.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...blair-team

Pittsburgh starts out next season with Youngstown State, Penn State and Oklahoma State. Does this put the PSU and OSU games out of reach or does Pitt still have a chance? Pitt only had 4 players returning on Defense and now some of them will be out for those 2 games.

Rori Blair is a loss because we have no depth at DE. However, the truth is that he is just a mediocre player so it's not that big of a deal. In fact, I think you could credibly argue that from a strict talent perspective he's probably the fourth most talented player out of the four suspended players.

The big loss is Jordan Whitehead. He's one of the best players in the entire ACC and for him to be out for three games really hurts our chances of winning those games.