PITTSBURGH — Right before halftime, Antonio Chadha showcased his leg on Saturday. The Pitt Panthers’ kicker booted a 58-yard field goal into the open end of Acrisure Stadium, tying the program’s record for its longest made field goal.
Chadha, a fifth year Western Illinois transfer, beat out Sam Hunsaker for the job.
“Those are the guys we’re lined up with this week, and obviously, it’s an audition for those guys to say, ‘OK, did the coaches make the right decisions? Or did they mess it up?’” Pitt head caoch Pat Narduzzi said Monday at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. “Because I think game days are game days, right? They’re totally different. … When you look at the numbers — we had this problem back in ’21 — when are they going through the upright, compared to just field goal reps as opposed to live reps?”…