2026 high-three-star Pittsburgh LB Colsen Gatten commits to Duke
Duke is making its presence felt in Pittsburgh as soon as once more, because the Blue Devils obtained a verbal dedication from 2026 high-three-star Central Catholic Excessive College linebacker Colsen Gatten on Wednesday.
Gatten intends to play his school soccer beneath head coach Manny Diaz, defensive coordinator/linebackers coach Jonathan Patke and the remainder of the workers at Duke.
Diaz started constructing a relationship with Gatten when he was nonetheless the defensive coordinator at Penn State, and the Nittany Lions provided the linebacker again in June of 2023. Diaz was employed by Duke in December of 2023, and he provided Gatten a scholarship from the Blue Devils shortly after that in January of 2024.
That is the second consecutive cycle by which the Blue Devils have landed a pledge from a Pittsburgh Central Catholic linebacker, as Duke signed four-star prospect Bradley Gompers within the 2025 class.
The Blue Devils signed 4 whole prospects out of Pennsylvania within the 2025 cycle.
Gatten has visited Durham to take a look at Duke’s campus on a number of events, together with in late January.
He ranks because the No. 18 prospect within the state of Pennsylvania and the No. 50 linebacker within the 2026 cycle.
As a junior in 2024, the 6-foot-1, 205-pound Gatten helped lead the Vikings to a 12-3 total document. Central Catholic earned a Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) 6A championship and a runner-up end within the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation (PIAA) 6A state championship sport.
Along with Duke and Penn State, Colsen Gatten has obtained scholarship gives from Boston School, California, Cincinnati, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, SMU, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, West Virginia, Wisconsin and others.
He took an official go to to Pitt throughout the weekend of June 6 by means of June 8, and beforehand had an official go to deliberate to Indiana. His official go to date to Duke isn’t but identified.
Gatten is a Penn State legacy recruit, as his father, Aaron Gatten, performed for the Nittany Lions within the late Nineties and early 2000s. Nevertheless, Colsen will look to blaze his personal path at Duke.
With Colsen Gatten now within the fold, Duke’s 2026 class grows to seven whole commitments.
