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RECRUITING: Huge get; Cyclones add fifth-year senior to line

This is a big one. 

Iowa State just added a fifth-year graduate transfer to its offensive line.

Tyler Catalina has been an all-league player and started every game for Rhode Island for the last two seasons. He was also a team captain. 

Now via this announcement that he recently made on Twitter, the 6-foot-6, 300-pound tackle is a Cyclone. 

Of course, Iowa State’s new energetic coaching staff then took to Twitter as well. 

Catalina will join the five JUCO prospects (two of them offensive linemen) who signed yesterday in Ames this January. 

Being that he’s a fifth year player, my guess is that Catalina will at the very least compete for a starting spot next season. 

Chris Williams

Chris was hired as Cyclone Fanatic’s publisher in the fall of 2009. He is Iowa State football's postgame show host on the Cyclone Radio Network and can be heard daily from 4-7 on Des Moines' top-rated sports station, 1460 KXnO. Williams, a 2007 graduate of Iowa State’s Greenlee School of Journalism, is the former publisher of the old CycloneNation.com (Scout.com). He has also written for the Des Moines Register, the Ames Tribune, CycloneReport.com and is the former sports director at KMA Radio. When Williams isn’t working, you can usually find him doing something outdoors with his wife Ashley, daughter Camryn, and Golden Retriever Dierks. He enjoys golfing, boating, country music, the Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Braves and is passionate about any and all motor sports so finding Williams at a local dirt track is very common.

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