2028 Commits

How this board is built

The 5 names above are the complete list on every outlet we read that publishes one, which is 3 of the 4 (247Sports, ESPN and Rivals), and every outlet that dates a pledge dates it the same day, which is why the dates are the one thing on this page printed without an outlet beside them. Everything else varies by service, so it is attributed. Where an outlet has not published a value the cell says not listed rather than borrowing the column beside it, because an outlet that never listed a high school has not agreed with one that did.

Eleven Warriors publishes no commit list for this class. Its column is read off its recruiting news feed, which answers only for the men currently in the news there: on September 23 that was Christopher Vargas, Jett Harrison and Luke Sohyda. Jameer Whyce and Elijah Newman-Hall are not on that page at all, so their grades are the ones it last carried, dated here to that reading rather than to this one.

The class rank of no. 2 nationally comes from 247Sports, read SEP 23, 2026. A class this small ranks on average rating rather than volume, so it will swing hard as the cycle fills. Every man above also has a profile of his own, and they are indexed together at 2028 recruits: one line each, built for scanning rather than for reading, and it names the field each service splits on. There is no watch list here yet, and that is a rule rather than a gap: an offer is not a pursuit. Every one of the four rows on the 2027 watch list is a man already pledged somewhere else, and each carries that school, a status, a note and a named outlet on every cell, because the list is about recruitments two programs are contesting. One dated offer is one school’s action and fills none of those cells, and neither does a recruit naming us in a list of twelve while he is pledged nowhere. So this board gets a watch list the day a 2028 man who is committed elsewhere is reported to that standard, and not before. Until then the reporting is carried as what it is, a story.

Reported in this cycle, and not a pledge

• Visit Kellan Hall Kellan Hall moves his Ohio State visit from Maryland to the Michigan game PUBLISHED OCT 8, 2026
• Visit Jamarcus Johnson Two of the top five defensive linemen in the 2028 class are due at Ohio Stadium for Maryland PUBLISHED OCT 7, 2026
• Offer Zyon Robinson Illinois is Ohio State's first big recruiting weekend, and nearly all of it is 2028 PUBLISHED SEP 25, 2026
• Visit Kellan Hall Top schools Ca'ron Williams Kellan Hall has an October 10 date at Ohio Stadium, and he is the No. 2 player in the 2028 class PUBLISHED SEP 3, 2026
• Forecast Kavon Blackmon Kavon Blackmon is No. 24 to one service and No. 279 to another, and Ohio State's forecast on him is two men deep PUBLISHED AUG 25, 2026
• Offer Zion Coger Ohio State offered a running back on Monday, and he is in the 2028 class, not the one with none PUBLISHED AUG 18, 2026

What their high schools are doing. This board is a ratings reading and it prints no scores. Their schools are one list at the foot of the high school season page, each with its record once the team has played, its latest result and its next game, read from that school’s own MaxPreps page and dated. Every man above carries the same season on his own profile. Schedules and team results only, and never an individual stat line.

The class that is actually about to sign is the 2027 board, where the same discipline applies to 19 commits, a watch list and the recruits who chose elsewhere. You can see where that class still has holes on the 2027 needs page.