The OHSAA says Ohio State's five-star receiver commit met a transfer exception. He is sitting two games for two unrelated infractions instead, missed Friday's loss at Fairfield, and is cleared to return in Week 3. Nobody will say what the infractions were until August 27.
Zion Coger of Jasper, Alabama picked up the offer on August 17. Land-Grant Holy Land reported it and 247Sports' own timeline carries the date, which makes him the second back Ohio State is chasing in a class that already has one, while the 2027 room sits at zero with a single flip target left.
Benny Easter Jr. has belonged to Texas Tech since November. Nigel Newkirk and Gabriel Osborne Jr. both pledged elsewhere at the turn of June, and Osborne's decision made Oklahoma the No. 1 class in the country that day. Read on their own 247Sports pages this weekend, the three of them are the No. 72, No. 226 and No. 36 players in the class.
The top ranked uncommitted player in the country went where the forecasts said he would. The class stays at two linebackers, and every name still on the board is committed to another school.
Every forecast this site can read points to Oregon: one 247Sports Crystal Ball entry with no lead expert, a 94.1 percent Rivals team number, and two named Rivals analysts. Here is the whole record, the reason the date already moved once, and the one column on his 247Sports page where Ohio State is the only school with anything in it.
The Massillon Washington linebacker is the top uncommitted player in the 2027 class by Sports Illustrated's reading, and he has called Ohio State a dream school. The visit log on his 247Sports page names official trips to California, Georgia and Oregon, and not one to Columbus.
The 2028 five-star from St. John's Prep chose the Buckeyes on Saturday. He is the No. 1 quarterback in the class to Rivals and to the 247Sports composite, the No. 2 on 247Sports' own board, and somewhere between 6-4 and 6-5 depending on who measured him.
| NO. | PLAYER | RATING | NATL RANK | HIGH SCHOOL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | DEDJ Jacobs6-5, 240 | ★★★★★ | NO. 3 NATL | Blessed Trinity Catholic / Roswell, GA |
| 02 | WRJamier Brown5-11, 192 | ★★★★★ | NO. 19 NATL | Wayne / Huber Heights, OH |
| 03 | DLMarcus Fakatou6-6, 275 | ★★★★★ | NO. 31 NATL | Sierra Canyon / Chatsworth, CA |
| 04 | OTCaden Moss6-5, 320 | ★★★★★ | NO. 47 NATL | Jackson Academy / Jackson, MS |
| 05 | OLKellen Wymer6-5, 265 | ★★★★★ | NO. 55 NATL | Liberty Center / Liberty Center, OH |
| 06 | DEWyatt Smith6-6, 235 | ★★★★★ | NO. 76 NATL | St. Thomas Aquinas / Fort Lauderdale, FL |
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