Fe Fi Fo Fum: Tyrone Williams commits

Cleveland Shaw wide receiver Tyrone Williams is a Buckeye:

Imagine 6-6 quarterback Terrelle Pryor throwing lob passes to 6-7 wideout Tyrone Williams in the back of the Ohio State end zone. Buckeyes fans can begin the fantasy now.

"He's the best quarterback I've ever seen in college and he's really fast, too,'' Williams said. "I looking forward to catching balls from him.''

Williams, a 6-7, 215-pound wide receiver at Shaw High School in East Cleveland, made an oral commitment to Ohio State on Saturday.

ESPN rants and raves about the kid's big-play ability:

Williams is a mammoth wide receiver prospect that in all likelihood will end up out-growing the position and become an H-back/receiver hybrid. He possesses a huge wingspan, rare height and deceptively good straight-line speed given his size. Looks like a power forward and uses his frame like one to gain position. He possesses excellent athletic ability and can hit top speed quickly off the line and is a bigger vertical threat than you might think.

Highlights?

Highlights!

My thoughts: Williams is a pretty big (no pun intended) get for this class. While Ohio State is deep at WR, it's also aging: when Williams steps onto campus in the fall of 2010, Dane Sanzenbacher and Taurian Washington will be seniors, DeVier Posey will be a (potentially NFL-bound) junior,  and Lamaar Thomas will be entering his third year as a Buckeye. Certainly, Duron Carter, Chris Fields and James Jackson provide some youth to the corps, but that doesn't necessarily make WR less of a position of need for 2010. Williams gives Ohio State something it lacks (outside of Carter) in terms of size; Washington, Bloody Sanzio, Thomas, Jackson and Fields all check in at 6'2" or shorter, while Carter, Posey and Williams all check in at 6'3" or greater, with Tyrone an unheard-of-for-WRs 6'7". He looks like an ostrich running with the ball in his hands, and should provide an immediate red-zone impact as a freshman. The recruiting gurus are universally rather high on him: Rivals, Scout and ESPN all have him tagged as 4-star prospect, and his offers - from West Virginia, Michigan State, Cincy and Illinois - seem to back that up.

But I know what you're thinking: the dude is 6'7", apparently a competent wide receiver, and he runs a legit 4.5? How the hell is he not entertaining offers from Florida, USC et al.? Well, the consensus is that he's rather raw as a pass-catcher, and he was hindered by a leg injury last year: competing in just four games, he made 11 grabs for 372 yards (an average of 33 per catch) for 8 touchdowns. Those stats are eye-popping for a four-game stretch, but it's quite possible that other schools cooled on him with the injury. If he gave them any indications he's a solid Buckeye lean, even more schools may have backed off. Regardless, I'm sold on him as a solid WR prospect and not a project guy with excellent size and speed but rock hands. He's a welcome addition to the 2010 class.

You want bearded ladies and dancing midgets? You get bearded ladies and dancing midgets, damn it. Tyrone, you are officially one of us.