Near the end of the 2016 football season, redshirt junior tight end Matt Flanagan announced he would be forgoing his final year of eligibility at Rutgers to pursue a master’s degree upon graduation. He was honored, along with the rest of the players set to graduate this spring, on senior night against Penn State on November 19th. The biological science major explained he wanted to begin pursuing his doctorate and thesis in some type of research science at another school, which NJ Advance Media’s Ryan Dunleavy covers in detail here.
Today, Flanagan announced the next step in his journey will be at Pitt, where he will be eligible this coming season as a graduate transfer.