Ohio receiver gets coveted invite to NFL scouting event

Ohio University senior wide receiver LaVon Brazill has been invited to the 2012 NFL Scouting Combine at Lucus Oil Field in Indianapolis. The NFL's annual event will take place Feb. 22-28.

Brazill (Lantana, Fla.) will join more than 300 of the country's top professional football prospects as they participate at the combine. He is also the first Bobcat to be invited to the Combine since Kalvin McRae received the nod back in 2008, according to a news release.

In 2011, Brazill set the single season school record at Ohio for yards receiving (1,146), receptions (74) and touchdowns (11) en route to earning All-MAC honors. He is also the all-time career leader in receptions (189) and yards receiving (2,511). His 18 career touchdowns rank second to Terrence McCrae (19).

Brazill closed out the year by surpassing 100 yards receiving in seven of the Bobcats' final 10 games, including Ohio's final game in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl where he recorded 108 yards receiving to earn Most Valuable Player honors to propel the Cats to their first-ever bowl victory.

Meanwhile, Ohio's last wide-receiver who went to the NFL, Taylor Price, ended his second star-crossed season in the pros, not making a single catch in his new team, the Jacksonville Jaguars', final game Sunday, a victory over Indianapolis. Before the game a Jags' blog predicted Price would get an opportunity to play, what with all the injuries plaguing Jacksonville's receiving corps.

Price got released by the team who drafted him in 2010, the New England Patriots, three weeks ago, and was quickly signed by Jacksonville. However, he has seen slim playing time since then. It's uncertain whether he played in the game on Sunday and didn't catch any balls, or just never got into the game.

He played very little for the Patriots, as a result of injuries (last season and most of this season) and, as reported in the Boston area press, because of difficulty "meshing" with Pats' quarterback Tom Brady.