Michael Smith ends career at Pitt with medical exemption

PittsburghPanthers.comPitt head coach Pat Narduzzi announced during a Labor Day press conference that Panthers wide receiver Michael Smith had received a medical exemption, which will bring an end to his playing career at Pitt.

During his press conference, Narduzzi revealed Smith suffered an injury to his lower back and had not fully recovered. Smith is the second member of the Pitt receiving corps to see their career come to an end with an exemption, as Narduzzi announced in August that Dontavius Butler-Jenkins was also finished at Pitt after a lingering knee injury had hindered him as well.

“Dontavius was medical, so was Michael,” Narduzzi said of the two receivers. “Michael had, I guess, a…