Who Ohio State is still recruiting, who might flip, and the announcement dates worth circling.
Still on the board The 4 uncommitted targets sit on the commit board beside every pledge, and so do the recruits who chose somewhere else. 2027 commit board → 22 STORIES / ON THIS BEAT
The No. 2 player in the 2028 class by the 247Sports Composite was due at Ohio Stadium for Saturday's Maryland game. Land-Grant Holy Land reported Thursday that he has pushed the trip back to November 28, when Michigan comes to Columbus.
Jamarcus Johnson of Toombs County, Ga., No. 5 among 2028 defensive linemen in the 247Sports Composite, scheduled a game-day visit for Ohio State's October 10 homecoming game against Maryland. Kellan Hall, No. 1 on the same list, has since moved his visit to the Michigan game on November 28.
The association denied transfer exceptions for Brayton Feister, the Oregon commit, and his brother Brydon. On October 9 a visiting judge refused to block that ruling, which sidelines both for the rest of the season unless their appeal succeeds.
The Princeton running back told Rivals on Thursday night that he will choose between Missouri, Ohio State and Penn State on October 23. Ohio State's 2027 class still has no running back, and Rivals reports he plans to return to Penn State for its White Out on October 10, the day the Buckeyes host Maryland.
Ohio State's top-rated 2027 commit was in Knoxville for Tennessee's game against Texas on the day the Buckeyes opened Big Ten play. It was billed as his younger brother's visit. On Tuesday Rivals wrote that Tennessee is the program working hardest to flip him, and 247Sports' visit log has not entered the trip.
Eleven Warriors counts 15 notable visitors for Saturday's noon Big Ten opener. Thirteen are juniors, one is a sophomore, and the only 2027 names are men already committed, led by quarterback Brady Edmunds on his first trip back this season.
Resolved Two outlets had the Princeton running back at Ohio Stadium for Kent State. Land-Grant Holy Land reports he has not set a commitment date, the one prediction on him is still the only one, and three days later Ryan Day told his running backs to run angry.
Resolved The Cincinnati Princeton running back will be in Columbus for Kent State, his second trip in three weeks. On3's Steve Wiltfong logged a pick for Ohio State the same morning. The other back on this board, Alabama commit Nigel Newkirk, had his mother on record the same day: it's still Roll Tide.
Ohio State's highest-rated pledge was in Athens for Georgia's whiteout while the Buckeyes were losing at Texas. Land-Grant Holy Land called the trip official. His 247Sports player page entered it the other way, and the counter beside it still reads one, Ohio State, June 12.
Land-Grant Holy Land argued on Thursday that holding DJ Jacobs matters more than anything else in the 2027 class, and it named the Hurricanes and the Volunteers. He was inside Ohio Stadium for the opener a week ago. The 247Sports page that logs his visits still says one, dated June 12.
Resolved The Cincinnati Princeton running back announced it on Instagram from Columbus. It landed the day after he ran for 100 yards and four touchdowns in a 49 to 6 win over Colerain, and it puts a Buckeye offer in front of the only uncommitted running back on this board, in a 2027 class that still has none.
Resolved The Cincinnati Princeton running back reopened his recruitment on September 3 and said the decision comes in the winter. The visit to Columbus is still on for Saturday, Ohio State still has not offered him, and the composite ranking three outlets quoted this week is not the one on his player page today.
Resolved The 247Sports Composite files Hall as the No. 1 defensive lineman and No. 2 overall recruit in his cycle. Land-Grant Holy Land reported the visit and Ohio State's own schedule confirms Maryland is a home game. The same report put the Buckeyes in Ca'ron Williams' final 12, and one line of it does not match the board it cites.
Resolved The Cincinnati Princeton running back is committed to Miami (Ohio). He rushed for 91 yards and two touchdowns and caught an 88-yard touchdown against Moeller on August 20, then five schools offered him in the next five days. Ohio State was not one of them. He is the first new 2027 running back name on this beat since David Gabriel Georges chose Tennessee on July 22.
On3 prints four ratings for Kavon Blackmon and they do not agree. The Rivals block has the Springfield offensive tackle at No. 24 in America, Rivals Industry has him at No. 128, ESPN at No. 279. On3's team model calls Ohio State a 98.6 percent bet; the two analysts who filed the actual predictions logged 60 and 65 percent. Read off the pages themselves on August 25.
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.
Resolved 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.
Resolved 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.
Resolved The five-star receiver chose between Ohio State, Alabama, Indiana, LSU and Texas at noon on July 17. He was the first of three decisions in six days, and Ole Miss had quietly joined the race for David Gabriel Georges.
Resolved The No. 10 overall prospect picked Tennessee on July 22 over Ohio State and Ole Miss, and the Buckeyes finish visit season with zero running back commits.
The class's only quarterback took June officials to two schools and, as of July 5, had not slammed the door. The problem: there was no clean Plan B anywhere on the board.
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