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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.
Ohio State's five-star receiver commit spent one semester at Big Walnut, won three state track titles there, and is enrolled in Huber Heights again. His pledge to the Buckeyes is not in question. Whether he plays this fall is.
A position by position read of the class entering August puts it at 19 commits with two groups at zero. The likeliest running back is now a flip of an Alabama or a Florida State pledge. The tight end may not be a high school recruit at all.
The Buckeyes went back to Jackson for the first top-100 offensive lineman from outside Ohio to pick them since 2021. Eleven Warriors counted Moss as the second Mississippian in program history, and the 1990 Ohio State media guide gives the first one a name, a position and a hometown: Craig Robinson, tight end, Jackson, one season.
The 247Sports composite had him No. 400 the day he pledged. It has him No. 1088 now. The scouting report on his own player page is dated a month before the commitment and has never been replaced, which means the number moved without anyone changing their mind about him.
Rivals calls him the No. 5 interior offensive lineman in the country. In the same article, Rivals says the industry has him 221 spots lower overall. Eight months after he committed, the services still do not agree on what he plays or how good he is.
Ohio State's 2027 quarterback left his UCLA official visit thinking he was going to be a Bruin. Two weeks later his father texted him from a hotel lounge in Columbus, and he says the answer was yes right there. He did not say it publicly until July 23.
The four-star from Huntington Beach spent his summer weighing a flip to UCLA. He says he is staying and plans to sign with Ohio State in December, a day after the class lost its top running back target.
The No. 10 overall prospect was the entire running back board. He is off it, the class is at zero, and the only path left is a flip.
Donte Wheat in 1981, Willie Salter in 2001, and then nothing until Nick Saban retired. Eleven Warriors counted the roster this week. ESPN, reporting on one recruit in 2024, had already recorded the mechanism.
He chose the Buckeyes over Auburn and Georgia, and filled the last hole in the best defensive line haul since 2021. By his own account he was going to Georgia before he visited Columbus.
He is the first composite five-star Indiana has ever signed up, and he was no longer expected to pick the Buckeyes. The 2027 receiver room still has its own five-star, and a flip target left on the board.
Arvell Reese went fifth and Sonny Styles seventh in April, the first time in NFL draft history two linebackers from one school have gone inside the top 10. Six times this site has tested a Buckeye position claim and found somebody else's recruit at its heart. Not this time. And neither man arrived as a linebacker anybody wanted.
Ohio State put three defensive backs in one NFL first round in 2017, tying the record, and all three were high school recruits who arrived three different ways. The newest first-round Buckeye defensive back arrived from Alabama. The 2027 class has four defensive backs committed and one corner still on the board.
Dwayne Haskins, Justin Fields and C.J. Stroud all went in the first round, and Eleven Warriors has Julian Sayin in line to make it four top-15 picks in nine years. Georgia recruited Fields. Alabama recruited Sayin. Kansas State recruited the quarterback who won the national title. The 2027 class has one quarterback, and he took a June visit to UCLA.
Archie Griffin still leads the Buckeyes' all-time rushing chart fifty years on, and Ohio State put two backs in the same NFL draft in 2025 for the first time since 1994. The 2027 class does not have a running back in it at all, and on July 22 the last five-star on the board, David Gabriel Georges, chose Tennessee.
Ohio State became the first school this decade to put two tight ends in one NFL draft, and the first in its own history to do it in a single class. One came from Purdue. The other was a two-star whose only FBS scholarship offer was Ohio University. The 2027 class has no tight end and nobody left to sign.
Two first-round linemen in one 2025 draft, the first such pair in fifty years, is the pitch that landed the Buckeyes' deepest line haul since 2020. Here is the record the recruiting is selling.
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.
Nine of the 18 pledges as of July 6 play offense, and six of them are offensive linemen. There is no running back in the class, no tight end, and a quarterback who took an official visit to UCLA after he committed. On July 22 the five-star who could have filled the hole, David Gabriel Georges, chose Tennessee.
Three days after Eleven Warriors called him the only uncommitted tight end holding an Ohio State offer, Johnson committed to Ole Miss. The 2027 class still has no tight end, and now it has nobody left to sign.
The 2027 in-state ledger. Ohio State holds the two best players in the state and lost the three cornerbacks ranked behind them, to Notre Dame, Penn State and Michigan. The class still has no top-100 corner and no tight end, and the state produced both.
Two five-star ends, two top-25 tackles, and the highest-rated class in program history. Here is what the standard actually was, and how close the 2027 line has come to it.
Nine defenders are pledged. Eleven Warriors calls the defensive line haul the program's best since the 2021 class that produced JT Tuimoloau and Jack Sawyer. The secondary is short a top-100 corner for the first time in five years, and Karlos May's July 18 commitment closed the one hole left on the front.
Five new commits in a month of official visits pushed the Buckeyes to 18, headlined by the nation's No. 1 defensive end. Here is the full board, who is still out there, and who got away.
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.
On3 says top ten. ESPN says 11th and falling. Both were looking at the same 18 commits as of July 4. Here is what each outlet is actually measuring.
Ten classes, nine with a five-star receiver, two position coaches, one standard. The definitive year-by-year record of Wide Receiver U.
A Cincinnati kid picked That Team Up North on July 1, all three of Ohio's top corners are now committed elsewhere, and the CB board suddenly looks thin.
Marvin Harrison Jr.'s younger brother committed on July 1, making it six straight classes with a five-star receiver and giving new WR coach Cortez Hankton his signature win.
Six offensive linemen, a historic defensive line haul, and a philosophy shift you can trace directly to ten sacks in two January losses.
Caden Moss on Friday, Marcus Fakatou over Georgia and Texas on Monday. Inside the best trench-recruiting stretch of the Ryan Day era.
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