Jaylen Waddle is fast. He's been timed at 4.37 in the 40. As a freshman he finished third at the Texas Relays, running the 100 meters in 10.68.

As fast as he is, he seems faster in pads. Waddle is sudden and electric, blessed with extraordinary acceleration, video-game jump cuts, the ability to shift gears, change direction and blow opponents minds in the open field. Opposing coaches see him running wild in their dreams.

The Episcopal star (in Bellaire, Texas, a suburb of Houston) terrorized the 4A Southwest Preparatory Conference last season on a team that finished 9-2. The most aptly named would-be Duck since Wesly Mallard caught 48 passes for 1382 yards and 26 touchdowns.

Look at that again: 26 of his 48 receptions (54%) went for touchdowns, and he averaged 28.8 yards per catch. The 5-10, 165-pound phenom jetted for 5 more touchdowns on kick returns (3 kickoffs and two punts) and carried the ball 23 times for 277 yards and 4 more scores.

In one game last October he had seven total touchdowns, catching six passes for 262 yards and five touchdowns, while rushing seven times for 139 yards rushing and two TDs. In a game in September he broke loose for five passes for 186 yards and scored three touchdowns in the first half, one of them going for 91 yards. The very next week he scored 5 times.

JW is a human highlight film, as dynamic as any high school receiver in the country, and his ability to get loose, get open and put the fear of god in defenders is second to none.

One of the reasons fans love college football is that it has a place for the quick small guy, be it De'Anthony Thomas, LaMichael James, DeSean Jackson, Raghib Ismail or Johnny Rodgers. The spread up-tempo offenses are a haven for small packages of dynamite that can bring stadiums to their feet.

In addition to football and track, Waddle is a such a gifted athlete he played varsity basketball as a sophomore on a team that reached a #4 ranking and a 17-4 record in Texas 4A play. Coach Wayne Johnson calls him the best defender on the squad, a reliable role player who averaged seven points, five steals, four rebounds a game. At 5-9.5 he soared for this dunk against Cooper High School:

On the gridiron his footwork and routes are exceptionally crisp for a high school player, with a combination of speed, shiftiness and quick hips that make him tough to jam at the line of scrimmage. He's a pint-sized Freddy Krueger in open space. Waddle has separation speed, an ability to accelerate and defeat angles, turn a step advantage into a stroll to the end zone.

Episcopal is a powerhouse among large-size religious preparatory schools in Texas. They won the SPC Championship in 2012 and 2014. Last year's squad featured two of the top recruits in the country in mammoth 5-star defensive tackle Marvin Wilson, who went to Florida State, and #7 overall prospect, 5-star offensive tackle Walker Little, who signed with Stanford.

Oregon offensive coordinator Marcus Arroyo recruits Texas as well as anyone in the country, and he's been on Jaylen since his days on the staff at Oklahoma State. The two have a good relationship and it's kept the Ducks in the running for the 4-star speedster, who described the invitation to UO as "my dream offer" when it came to him this spring.

He's patterned his game after De'Anthony Thomas, and that quick first step and threat to score from anywhere makes it an apt comparison.

Yet it won't be easy getting or keeping a commitment from the Knights sensational senior. Getting him to Saturday Night Live certainly helps, but Waddle has over two dozen offers, an all-star list of the blue bloods of college football that includes Texas A&M, TCU, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon, LSU, Florida State, Miami, Ole Miss, Florida and Georgia.

Florida State has pushed heavily. The Aggies are a favorite, and in the A&M offense they'd use him like Christian Kirk. Waddle took a June visit to Tuscaloosa, and every recruit is impressed by Alabama and all those championship trophies and first round draft picks.

Still, he almost committed during a visit to the Oregon spring game, and he's coming back for a second trip on July 29th, making him a repeat guest star on the order of Christopher Walken and Alec Baldwin.