Record-setting back is Mr. Football

COLUMBUS (AP) -- Tyrell Sutton had a monster senior season at Akron Hoban, culminating in being selected as the Associated Press Mr. Football Wednesday.
The thing is, he knows it could have been even better.
"I had a fantastic year statistically, but it was not up to par as to my main goal -- getting a state championship for everyone," said the 5-foot-10, 194-pound running back. "The records, that's all fine and dandy, but I don't want to be the only one with excitement going on. I wanted us all to have a state championship. I don't want to be the sole person to stand out in anything."
Too late. Sutton's numbers set him apart from everyone else and stamped him as the clear winner of the award that goes annually to the top player in Ohio.
In 2004 he carried 354 times for 3,232 yards (a 9.1-yard average) and 38 touchdowns, including one on a reception and another on a kickoff return. He threw a TD pass in a playoff win against Akron Buchtel, and rushed for 505 yards against Youngstown Ursuline and 406 against Warren Harding.
The son of an Akron police officer whose mother is a secretary, Sutton finished his Hoban career with 9,426 yards rushing -- the most ever by an Ohio high school player -- on 1,090 carries. He scored 117 touchdowns, all but five on the ground. And he would have been a standout player if he never carried the ball once, based on his 455 receiving yards and 1,038 return yards, bumping his all-purpose yards to 10,919.
Sutton has a 3.4 grade-point average and has committed to Northwestern.