Five names I keep hearing good things about at WVU:
1) Justin Crawford
2) Sly Townes
3) Maurice Fleming
4) Gary Jennings
5) Justin Arndt

— Mike Casazza (@mikecasazza) August 9, 2016

I transcribed a lot of tape last night from the first week of WVU’s preseason camp, and I noticed some trends about some players, so I decided to to that silly top five this morning. They’re in no particular order, but it occurs to me I might have put Crawford at No. 1 for a reason.

He’s been on campus since May, he had all summer to acquiesce and the reigning junior college player of the year for the 2015 national champion brought no baggage with him. Seemingly every day there’s someone saying something optimistic about a player WVU is going to need in the fall.

“I think he’s backing up why we recruited him,” Seider said.

He finished the 2015 season with 1,610 yards and 16 touchdowns, thanks to four 200-yard games, and finished his freshman year with 1,551 yards and 14 scores. For his career, he averaged 6.7 yards per carry and more than 220 all-purpose yards per game because he was an effective receiver, too, with 41 career receptions for 700 yards and six touchdowns.

“He’s my type of back,” Seider said. “He’s a guy who can do it all. He can catch the ball as well as run the ball and he can play out in space. He’s big enough to be an every-down back but he could play in the slot also if we need him to. And he likes to score touchdowns.”