UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH FOOTBALL MEDIA CONFERENCE

September 26, 2026

Censere Lee

Press Conference

Pitt 59, Bucknell 0

CENSERE LEE: Good thing. Confidence is key in everything you do.

Q. For you in terms of establishing yourself as kind of the go-to guy on the offense in this receiver room.

CENSERE LEE: Like I said, just confidence. I mean, the whole offense. I mean, anybody could be the guy. We thrive off of the ball comes your way, make the play. Don't wait on another opportunity. It may never come. That's life. So just gotta make the play.

Q. What about a guy like Demetrice who scored two touchdowns today? Younger receiver. How have you kind of mentored the young other receivers?

CENSERE LEE: I mean, ever since spring, like our receiver room we've been so tight. We just clicked as soon as everyone came, like even Dylan Wester and Bryan Hamilton, the other freshmen, we all just hang out together. Like we're so close. I think even Kent made us even more closer, because we got to go through a lot of like downs, ups. Then it allows everybody to learn like how he reacts when he's mad and stuff like that. So we're a close group. I mean, we're truly brothers. So seeing him out there today, I mean, that made everybody happy. I mean, you could see it.

Q. (Inaudible)?

CENSERE LEE: Tremendously. I mean, I've spoken on this earlier. Like, he's grown ever since he even stepped foot on this campus. Like he's such a pro, like even I, and I tell the receivers sometimes, like we need to take stuff from him, like what is he doing on the late nights away from football. You know what I mean? Like, he's such a pro. He loves the game, and it shows, and that's something we need to do as like anybody on offense, or even defense, like, just becoming a pro. That's the dream.

Q. When is the last time you caught three touchdowns in a game?

CENSERE LEE: High school. Yeah. High school.

Q. I saw you had the student section.

CENSERE LEE: Uh-huh, it was nice.

Q. Different receivers caught passes today, too. You guys broke some records today, too, with all-time total offense. How big of a testament is that to this team here?

CENSERE LEE: I mean, it's a big one. It just shows that our offense, like anybody can make it happen. We have guys, even young, small, big, slow, it doesn't matter, anybody on our receiver core can go out there and make a play. And then just Mason being awesome at just distributing the ball. I mean, he doesn't have to be like, oh, I can only throw it to him. You know what I mean?

Q. You guys have now done this Miami of Ohio and Bucknell. Is there any, like, sense of, like, excitement to do this against one of the power core conference teams now that you have the ACC schedule the rest of the way up? It's excitement like, yeah, we can do this against other teams, too?

CENSERE LEE: Yeah, 100 percent. We talk about it all the time. Like we want to have that perfect game. Like we want to strive for that perfect game where this happens all the time, like just everyone getting the ball, making plays, no matter who it is. We just want to make it happen. So that is a big thing we talk about in the receiver room.