The Michigan coaching staff appears to be hitting Oakland County heavy this spring, having already gotten a verbal commitment from Birmingham Seaholm wideout Shawn Conway, and recently extending a scholarship offer to Madison Heights Madison's blazing-fast Valdez Showers.

Showers, who has a listed 40-yard dash time of 4.27 seconds according to Rivals.com, already has scholarship offers from three other Big Ten schools — Michigan State, Wisconsin and Northwestern — as well as Cincinnati — which has had kept a pipeline open to southeast Michigan under Brian Kelly and now Butch Jones — and a pair of MAC schools in Toledo and Central Michigan.

In addition to Conway and corners Greg Brown — from Charles Woodson's alma mater, Fremont (Ohio) Ross —  and Cass Tech's Delonte Hollowell, the Wolverines recently got a commitment from four-star Plymouth Canton DE Brennan Beyer.

It's never too early to start recruiting for next season — and a little over three weeks after National Signing Day for 2010 had concluded, Michigan already has three commitments for 2011, the latest coming from Birmingham Seaholm's Shawn Conway.

The 6-foot-4 junior wideout was offered a scholarship at Michigan's Junior Day Saturday, and he accepted, joining a recruiting class that already includes Cass Tech's Delonte Hollowell and Greg Brown of Ross, Ohio — both defensive backs.

For more on Conway's decision to commit to the Wolverines, read Scott Burnstein's prep notebook in Monday's edition of The Oakland Press, and check back on his Burney's Bytes blog on TheOaklandPress.com for updates.