Here’s the kind of player profile you don’t expect to find. Focus on the redshirt freshman, walk-on, back-up punter who is also the only player on the Pitt squad from West Virginia. Say hello to Lucas Stone.

There is exactly one West Virginian on the Pittsburgh Panthers football roster. Lucas Stone knows all too well who that is.

“I am the only West Virginian on the Pittsburgh ball team,” said Stone, a redshirt freshman for the Panthers.

While Stone wasn’t able to attend the ‘Backyard Brawl’ last year at West Virginia, he certainly knew how big that game was to both teams.

“I caught a little good-natured stuff coming my way, but it’s all fun among the team,” said Stone, a 2005 graduate of Bluefield High School. “But when we get down to WVU, it’s just serious.

“We don’t want to lose to WVU. It’s the last game of this season, we will be ready.”

Unable to travel with the team or play last season as a redshirt, this one will be at Heinz Field on Nov. 16, and he could play a role.

“I’m the backup punter right now so I will get to travel,” Stone said. “You don’t really know about playing, you just have to go out there and see what happens. It should be a real good game, I’m looking forward to it.”

Small correction, the WVU game is the second last game.

The article notes that Stone wasn’t a Hoopie fan. His father went to Virginia Tech, so he was a Hokie fan in Hoopieland.