West Virginia University Athletics

Tyler Haywood was elevated to recruiting analyst on the Mountaineer Football staff in May 2024 after serving as a recruiting assistant. He spent the past four years as a student recruiting assistant.

He is part of the recruiting team that manages and oversees the assistant/quality control coaches’ recruiting plan, assists with the initial evaluation process, collects prospects transcripts and is a staff host for on-campus recruiting. He has areas and positions to compile recruiting lists based on initial evaluations and handles the updating of the attack lists and prospect cut-ups. He assists with the recruiting internship program, offensive and defensive evaluation process, coaches communication, on-campus recruiting, database management and evaluation and contact period logistics.

He also gives support to his assigned assistant coaches with day-to-day recruiting, position/area lists, communication and evaluations, as well as relaying information about recruits.

As a student recruiting assistant, Haywood assisted the defensive coaches with recruiting organization, including the defensive line with area and position recruiting. He maintained the defensive line recruiting board and created recruiting boards for other positions, created point of attack tapes for offensive and defensive recruits and created and updated prospect lists for position coaches. He performed initial evaluations for high school and junior college prospects and created and updated prospect lists.

Haywood, a native of Collegeville, Pennsylvania, graduated from West Virginia with his bachelor’s degree in applied human sciences in May 2023, majoring in athletic coaching education and minoring in sport and exercise science and sport communication.