Official visit season is over, and Ohio State’s 2027 class sits at 18 commitments as of July 6. Five of those arrived in the last month alone, and the group now carries three five-stars, thirteen four-stars, and two three-stars in the 247Sports composite.
The headliner is DJ Jacobs, a 6-5, 235-pound defensive end out of Blessed Trinity Catholic in Roswell, Georgia. Jacobs is the No. 4 overall prospect in the country and the No. 1 player at his position in the composite. Behind him sit two more five-stars: Jamier Brown, a 5-11 wide receiver ranked No. 24 nationally as of July 7, who was enrolled at Big Walnut High School in Sunbury on this date and has since returned to Wayne in Huber Heights, and Marcus Fakatou, a 6-6, 275-pound defensive lineman from Sierra Canyon in California who picked the Buckeyes over Georgia and Texas at the end of June.
Still on the board
Update, July 22: all three names in this section have since decided. Karlos May committed to Ohio State on July 18; Monshun Sales chose Indiana on July 17; David Gabriel Georges chose Tennessee on July 22. The snapshot below is as of July 6.
The class is far from closed. Running back David Gabriel Georges, wide receiver Monshun Sales, and defensive tackle Karlos May all remain live targets, and the staff is working a flip on Texas Tech wide receiver commit Benny Easter Jr., the No. 64 overall player in the composite as of July 7.
Who got away
Visit season cuts both ways. Ohio State lost Blake Wong to BYU, Kaylon Bailey to Colorado, and Jayden Miles to Florida State, and Cincinnati corner Monsanna Torbert Jr. picked Michigan on July 1. The Miles and Torbert misses sting the most, and we broke both down separately.
The takeaway: this is already a top-ten class by most outlets’ math, the front seven haul is historic, and the three weeks after this snapshot decided whether it finished with a running back and a locked-in quarterback. July 22, the day Georges announced, was circled in scarlet. It went to Tennessee, and the running back hole is still open.
