Nation’s Top Wide-Out Commits To Mountaineers

As I’ve pointed out before, I am not a recruit-chaser; not one who will sit around counting star-ratings and chasing down 300 high school kids from across the country and comparing 40-yard dashes and the latest recruiting rumor. But when it’s March and a player who is in the argument for the nation’s top high school wide receiver in next year’s class commits to WVU, even if it’s a non-binding verbal commitment that won’t be in stone for eleven more months, well you want to take notice of that.

And that is exactly what happened today as Rivals.com as well as Scout.com are both reporting that 6′2″, 181-pound Logan Heastie of Chesapeake, Virginia has given his verbal commitment to play for West Virginia in 2009. Apparently, West Virginia is making in-roads in the tidewater Virginia area with running backs coach Chris Beatty, a former high school coach in the area. Heastie was considered by many of the recruitniks to be leaning towards the University of Florida, but gave his early verbal to WVU’s staff today.

Coach Bill Stewart and staff seem to be off to a fantastic start to their recruiting already, even if Heastie turns on his verbal commitment, getting even a soft verbal from this caliber of player, this early on, speaks volume to this staff’s ability and will form a solid base from which the staff can build confidence, and believe that they can recruit top-notch talent to Morgantown. Mountaineer fans have to take this news extremely optimistically.

Also on the commitment list for the Mountaineers is another tidewater area prospect, dual-threat quarterback Tajh Boyd of Hampton. Boyd is rated #21 nationally amongst QBs and carries a 3-star rating at Scout.com. Bill Stewart may have just found the young men that will anchor his offense for years to come.

Tags: Bill Stewart, recruiting, Tajh Boyd, Logan Heastie, Chris Beatty