Another busy day with Super Bowl stuff, but I got a call back this afternoon from Jason Pierre-Paul, the five-star defensive end from Fort Scott Community College who committed to USF earlier this week. Nobody was able to get Pierre-Paul initially, as everyone had gotten the news from his coach at Fort Scott, so this was the first chance to get the news straight from the commitment himself. A few things ...

-- His weight. He's been listed at 280 pounds a few places, which surprised me, because he was listed around 230 two years ago when he signed with Central Florida out of high school. Pierre-Paul said Friday that he's 6-foot-5, 260 pounds, which puts him at a good weight to be a college defensive end.

-- The competition: Pierre-Paul said the other schools he strongly considered were Nebraska, Kansas State, Arizona and Kansas, in that order. Geography helped the Bulls, as he's from Deerfield Beach and likes the idea of his mother, father, brother and sister being able to drive to his home games. He said he and Fort Scott linebacker Jacquian Williams, another USF commitment, have found a lot in common since the end of the season -- both great athletes who had to leave the state to get the degrees they needed to get a scholarship back in their home state.

-- Pierre-Paul said the chance to play with senior George Selvie was a major plus, and his goal now is to earn the starting job opposite Selvie and learn as much as possible from him this fall. "He's an All-American, and hopefully it'll be me and him coming at people from both sides," he said.

-- Sunday's paper will have a feature on Lake Mary's Demi Thompson, a great story that stands out in a ridiculously talented class of defensive linemen coming to USF. It's interesting that USF is ranked by Rivals.com as having the nation's No. 2 group of defensive ends in the country in this year's class. That ranking, however, includes Leslie Stirrups as a defensive end, but he's been a defensive tackle at East Mississippi and I have no reason to think he'll be anything but a tackle at USF. With Stirrups, Khyri Thornton and Anthony Hill, the Bulls have eight defensive linemen in this class, clearly a strength in what's shaping up as a top-25 class nationally.