Jonah Hill in Transformers 2?

According to Entertainment Weekly, Jonah Hill may be cast in Transformers II:

Jonah Hill is in early negotiations to costar opposite Shia LaBeouf in Transformers 2 for DreamWorks and Paramount. Hill (Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) will provide the comic relief as a sidekick to Shia's Sam Witwicky. (A source tells EW.com that he'll play Sam's college roommate, but DreamWorks won't confirm.) The sequel is set to begin shooting this summer.

I really hope they have this wrong. Jonah Hill has no real skills with his "comedy" in every single movie limited to a one note performance of the insecure gay guy (who doesn't think he is gay) that poorly hits on one of the movie's leads. They should just bring back Anthony Anderson if they want a funny fat guy. At least he has the skills to add variety and depth when needed. Besides, Shia has proven his comedy chops. I just don't see Hill adding anything that Shia couldn't do himself (unless the role is a fat gay guy that is hitting on Shia the entire movie).

I am hoping this is one of Bay's misdirection’s but considering how the studios use EW as part of their advertising campaign I don't see them willing to trick "mainstream media" publications. Any case if they are hiring him because he is "hot" at the moment, please don't. The movie doesn't need it, he isn't going to fill seats, the CGI and story will. Despite media claims to the contrary its not the cast that got people to see the first movie but the over the top special effects and that isn't going to change with the second one.