'07 OH RB Morgan Williams (Toledo walk-on)

[OSUBucks22]

Definitely...no matter what position they end up playing. I hope we get the entire lot of dynamic playmakers looking at OSU. Williams, Stephens, Dailey, Gamble, Torrence, Baab and Hinds are all kids that could play a number of positions next year. That's something that I really like about next year's class.

From what I hear, we have great to phenomenal shots at landing several of those players (Williams, Dailey, Gamble, Torrence, and Hinds)...

 

[grittibanz]

Seriously, the kid looks like he's going to be sweet, i hope that his coaches smash it in his head that he needs to work on those grades, because that would be shame to lose him to Michigan State (ha) like Ringer.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

link

11/7/05

McKinley’s Williams wins Federal League MVP

Monday, November 7, 2005 <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>By Chris Beaven Repository sports writer



The dominance of the McKinley High School football team this season did not go unnoticed in the Federal League.

The Bulldogs were rewarded with 10 players on the 26-player All-Federal League first team. Fourteen Bulldogs in all made the first or second team, which were voted on by the league’s eight coaches.

Junior tailback Morgan Williams leads the list of McKinley honorees. The coaches selected him the Player of the Year.

The other top individual honor — Coach of the Year — was split between McKinley’s Brian Cross and Hoover’s Don Hertler Jr.

Cross guided McKinley to a 10-0 season. The Bulldogs are in the second round of the playoffs as they seek a return to the Division I state finals. Hertler’s leadership helped Hoover go 7-3 and make the playoffs, as the Vikings rebounded from a 1-9 season.

Williams became McKinley’s second-straight Federal League Player of the Year. The person he replaced at tailback, Ryan Brinson, won the award a year ago.

Williams won it this year after he rushed for an area-best 1,935 yards during the regular season. He joined Brinson as McKinley’s second 2,000-yard rusher in Saturday’s playoff win over Brunswick. Williams also has 29 touchdowns.

“He was our go-to guy,” Cross said. “When we needed yardage, we gave the ball to him. He just got better and better at reading zone (blocking) schemes and made tremendous cuts. He ran as hard as any back I’ve seen this year.”

McKinley’s other first-team selections are receiver Joe Morgan, tackle Zach Slagle, guard Tyrell McDonald, kicker Zack Campbell, defensive tackle Jeremy Holloway, linebackers Jeff Vaughn and Mike Kirksey and safeties Harriel Moore and Mark Jackson.

Their work helped McKinley outscore its opposition by an average of 40.7 to 8.7. The Bulldogs won all 10 of their games by at least 21 points. Morgan caught a school-record 11 TD passes, adding a 12th against Brunswick. He had 30 catches for 822 yards during the season.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

[bucknut11]

[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]Williams had 190 yards and 2 TDs on 30 carries as [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]Canton McKinley beat Elyria[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica] tonight, [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]35-[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]9[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]. [/FONT][/FONT]

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Junior tailback Morgan Williams is within 100 yards of the school’s single-season rushing record. He has 2,309 yards going into this weekend's game.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Morgan was named to the First Team Division I All-Northeast Ohio Inland District Football Team, he was also named Offensive Player of the Year.

 

[bucknut11]

Morgan was named first team all-Ohio and offensive player of the year!

link

 

[OSUBucks22]

scout.com $

12/1

McKinley coach Brian Cross talks to Chris Pool about Morgan.

 

[osugrad21]

Canton Rep

1/15

“We look at what we run and what kind of players we have next year and whether they fit into it or not,” Cross said. “If we don’t feel like what we’re doing isn’t the best fit for the kids, we’ll make changes. If we have to make major changes, we’ll find someone who runs what we’re going to change to and go study it.”
None of this means that All-Ohio running back Morgan Williams won’t be the focus. Williams’ season has elevated him to a Big Ten or major Division I running back.
“I think he’s gotten letters from everyone,” Cross said. “If he has the type of senior season he’s capable of having ... we’ll see. We lost a lot of people, and a running back is only as good as his offensive line.”
Williams is about 6-foot, 190 pounds. Cross would like to see him play at 205 next year and maintain his speed.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

rivals.com$

1/31/06

Ohio State is his leader at this point. Morgan is also interested in Illinois, Notre Dame and Michigan.

 

[wadc45]

I would love to see Morgan get an offer to go along with Saine, but he needs to continue to get things done in the classroom.

 

[FuzzheadBBM]

I'm personally not sold on Mr. Williams myself. The Federal League just wasn't all that tough this past sreason. Morgan stuffed plenty of stat sheets, but we all know that there is more to a player than his stats. Morgan lived by the long touchdown run and he did that often last season. The three backs that I watched in the last few years that I thought to myself "OSU needs to get that kid" were Chris Wells (first saw him as a soph), Javon Ringer (only saw him as a junior) and Darius Ashley. However, I also wasn't sold on Antonio Pittman either and he turned out to be just fine.

 

[OSUBucks22]

I'm personally not sold on Mr. Williams myself. The Federal League just wasn't all that tough this past sreason. Morgan stuffed plenty of stat sheets, but we all know that there is more to a player than his stats. Morgan lived by the long touchdown run and he did that often last season. The three backs that I watched in the last few years that I thought to myself "OSU needs to get that kid" were Chris Wells (first saw him as a soph), Javon Ringer (only saw him as a junior) and Darius Ashley. However, I also wasn't sold on Antonio Pittman either and he turned out to be just fine.

JMO, but I don't think Morgan ends up a RB here...

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Rivals.com$

2/7/06

OhioVarsity......OV review of Williams.

 

[NuclearBuck]

Would it be fair to guess that if his grades were a bit better that he would have an offer already? Personally I would love to see him get an early offer from the staff to accompany Saine. There is certainly plenty of talent on the board at RB but his body type seems like the perfect match for us.