Hall of Fame

Tyrell Sutton - Akron Hoban
Northwestern

By David Baugh
At 5'9, 190 pounds, Tyrell Sutton rewrote the record
books in Ohio by amassing 9,426 yards and 112
touchdowns on the ground, adding 455 receiving yards
and 1,038 yards on returns, in four years for Akron
Hoban.  The numbers don’t lie, but they also don’t
tell the whole story.  Opposing teams made it a
priority to contain Sutton, not to mention the fact
that Hoban plays a very competitive schedule every
year.  Despite the efforts of opposing teams ,
containing Sutton was not an option.  As a senior in
2004, he ran for 3,232 yards and 38 touchdowns.  Some
of his best performances that season were against
state powerhouses Youngstown Ursuline (505 yards
rushing & 8 touchdowns) and Warren G. Harding (404
yards rushing & 4 touchdowns), so anybody questioning
his level of competition needs to take a closer look.


In an outstanding class that included players such as
Alex Boone (Lakewood St. Edward), Terrill Byrd
(Cincinnati Colerain), Mario Manningham (Warren G.
Harding), Jamario O’Neal (Cleveland Glenville), and
Javon Ringer (Dayton Chaminade-Julienne), Sutton ran
away with the 2004 Mr. Football Award, an honor that
was previously won by the likes of Charles Woodson,
Robert Smith (twice), Curtis Enis, and Maurice
Clarett.  He put the exclamation point on his high
school career off by running for 201 yards and 3
touchdowns on 21 carries  in the 2005 North-South Game
in Columbus (the North won 45-17), giving many Ohio
State fans an up close look at a player that they’ll
be going up against  in the near future.  Northwestern
may have got the biggest steal in the country for the
class of 05' in Sutton, who wasted no time making his
mark as a Wildcat as his rushed for 1,474 yards and 16
touchdowns as a  true freshman, averaging 5.9 yards
per carry in the process.  He is easily one of Ohio’s
best ever, and the scary thing is that he’s just
getting started.




Northwestern RB

Sutton and Manningham