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West Virginia Football: 5 signees who’ll have an instant impact in 2018

By Andrew Miller

MORGANTOWN, WV - DECEMBER 03: Head Coach Dana Holgorsen of the West Virginia Mountaineers looks on before the game against the Baylor Bears at Mountaineer Field on December 3, 2016 in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images)
MORGANTOWN, WV - DECEMBER 03: Head Coach Dana Holgorsen of the West Virginia Mountaineers looks on before the game against the Baylor Bears at Mountaineer Field on December 3, 2016 in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images) /
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Even though there’s a lot of talent returning along the West Virginia offense, especially in the receiving corps, there’s still going to be a lot of targets to go around. Rising junior Will Grier should be the best quarterback in the Big 12 in 2018, and he’ll have a lot of weapons to throw to.

One of those weapons that could emerge this year is three-star tight end Mike O’Laughlin. As a top-10 player from Illinois, and with the size at 6-foot-5, O’Laughlin was a gem of a find for the Moutaineers.

While he did sign with West Virginia a while ago, O’Laughlin did also receive an offer from the Ohio State Buckeyes, but still decide to take his talents to Morgantown. That signals a buy in from some promising prospects that Holgorsen is putting together a really solid offense now.

Since West Virginia is not an offense that traditionally lines up with a standard tight end in the formation, O’Laughlin is likely to take a spot outside more often. He could present a matchup nightmare for opposing defenses, especially with the amount of skill position players that defenses have to worry about on the Mountaineers offense already.

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