Thursday Dana Holgorsen called J.D. Woods an “obvious starter” in the same sentence that included the same label for Tavon, Stedman and Jordan Thompson, who may be on his way to first name familiarity.

This is truly surprising. As recently as a week ago, WVU was kind of worried Woods wouldn’t be academically eligible. The senior was instead relegated to scout team work.

And now he’s above Ryan Nehlen and Ivan McCartney, who Holgorsen wouldn’t even slot above redshirt freshman K.J. Myers, who is behind Bailey at the other outside position and who received a comparatively glowing review from Holgorsen.

Meanwhile, in other McCartney news, he’s good to go academically, but …