West Virginia may be missing one of the jewels from their 2004 football recruiting class.

Ohio’s reigning Mr. Football, Raymond Williams, and a teammate were jailed Monday, accused of taking part in a robbery that led to the shooting death of their friend.

Cleveland police took Williams and fellow Benedictine High School football player Jon Huddles ton, both 18, to City Jail, but neither was charged, a police spokeswoman said.

Williams, committed to attend West Virginia University this fall, was held on suspicion of murder.

Williams was also selected to the “Parade Magazine’s All-America High School Football Team.” The details are sketchy, but it appears the charges will be much lower than the sensationalized accusations.

Police do not believe Williams or Huddleston fired the gun that killed teammate Lorenzo Hunter; rather, they say that the two took part in the holdup with Lorenzo and that the robbery led to his death.

Lorenzo, 16, was shot and killed about 2 a.m. April 16 near East 124th Street and Craven Avenue in Cleveland. Authorities said Lorenzo was hanging out with friends during his spring break when he tried to rob a neighborhood man with a phony gun.

The 20-year-old man, Rodney Roberts, opened fire with a real one. Roberts lived just a few doors from the shooting scene. He was charged last week with aggravated murder. At a court hearing, his lawyers said Roberts was being robbed when he shot Lorenzo in self-defense.

I don’t know what this will do to his scholarship? Looks like WVU wants to take Miami’s place in the Big East as the destination for thugs and punks.