Kellan Hall is scheduled to be at Ohio Stadium on October 10, when Ohio State hosts Maryland. Gene Ross reported it for Land-Grant Holy Land on August 31. Ohio State’s own schedule page carries the game where the report says it is, in Columbus, with no kickoff time set yet.
Hall is a defensive lineman in the class of 2028 out of Christian Academy of Louisville in Kentucky. His 247Sports player page, read this morning, carries two ratings side by side: the 247Sports Composite has him at 0.9988, No. 1 defensive lineman, No. 1 player in Kentucky and No. 2 player in the country, and 247Sports’ own analysts have him at 95 and sixth nationally. Both blocks agree he is the best defensive lineman in his class. The reporting cites the Composite, so that is the scale named here.
That is the whole of the news. He is not committed anywhere, he has not released a list, and his page says there are no Crystal Ball predictions on him at this time, which is 247Sports’ way of saying nobody who forecasts these has publicly guessed.
Ohio State already has the No. 4 and the No. 6 on that board
The number is worth sitting with, because this class is not a blank page.
On the same Composite, read off each man’s own page this morning, Ohio State’s 2028 commit board carries Jett Harrison at No. 4 nationally and Christopher Vargas at No. 6. Four pledges, two of them inside the top ten of the country, and the visitor arriving on October 10 rates above both.
Name the scale or the sentence means nothing, which is the rule everywhere on this site. Those are Composite numbers, the industry average, and 247Sports’ own analysts do not agree with the average about either commit: their board has Vargas fourth and Harrison sixteenth. Both readings are on both pages, an inch apart, and the 2028 board prints four outlets per pledge for exactly that reason.
The room he would be walking into is Larry Johnson’s
Hall has already been on campus once this year, at a camp, and the two things he said afterward are about the position coach rather than the program. 247Sports lists Larry Johnson as Ohio State’s recruiter on his page.
“Some camps like to just see you work out, but Coach Johnson, he gets after you today,” Hall told Land-Grant Holy Land. “He treats you like a player, and you really get after it. It wasn’t too hot, but it felt like a great work day. I felt like I was one of his players today.”
The second quote is the one that will travel. “He said I can be a do-it-all type of guy,” Hall said. “He said I have traits like [Chase Young]. Just hearing the stories, players saying [Young] had to sit out of practice because of how bad he was doing them and just seeing that, that’s a high honor to get paired with someone like that who’s probably one of the greatest D-linemen to ever do it.”
That is a recruit repeating what a coach told him, and it is printed here as exactly that. It is not an evaluation, and the bracketed name is the outlet’s, not ours.
Ross reports Hall holds nearly 30 offers and has not put out a top schools list, and reads the ten schools on his visit schedule as the practical version of one. His player page counts 29 offers, so the reporting and the database agree. Ohio State is on that visit schedule. For what it is worth about the room he would be joining two cycles later, this site’s 2027 defensive line page counts two pledges at the position and nobody left on the board there.
Ca’ron Williams cut to 12, and Ohio State is one of them
The other half of the same report is a cornerback on the other side of the country.
Ca’ron Williams, a 2028 corner at Santa Margarita Catholic in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, cut a list of more than two dozen offers down to a final 12 over the weekend. His player page counts 25. Ross names Ohio State in that group alongside LSU, Miami, Notre Dame, Oregon and Texas. Williams earned the Ohio State offer on a visit in April and, by his own account, liked it.
“I had a great visit,” he said. “I liked the school, the facilities and the stadium was amazing. I had a chance to watch practice and that was the high point of the visit.” He also described a meeting with the corners coach, whom the report calls Coach Walton, and said he intends to come back for a game, though it is explicit that no return visit is on the calendar yet.
His production is in the reporting too: 45 tackles, two tackles for loss and three pass breakups as a freshman, then 47 tackles, four breakups and three interceptions including a pick six as a sophomore.
One line of that report does not match the board it cites
Here is the part worth checking, and it is small.
Ross writes that Williams is “the top defensive back out of his home state of California,” and cites the 247Sports Composite for the ranking in the same sentence. The ranking half of that sentence is confirmed exactly on Williams’ own page: the Composite has him No. 187 nationally and No. 19 among cornerbacks, read this morning. It also files him No. 10 in California.
The other half is not what that board says, and two pages settle it. Jalen Flowers of Palos Verdes is a 2028 safety the Composite rates No. 84 nationally and No. 3 in California. Jackson Parker of Garces Memorial is a 2028 safety the Composite rates No. 101 nationally and No. 6 in California. A safety is a defensive back, and both of them rate ahead of Williams in his own state on the board the report names.
What that same board does support about Williams is narrower and still says something real: he is a top-20 cornerback in the country and a top-ten player in California in his class. His page also carries the disagreement this site always prints, because 247Sports’ own analysts are well behind their own average on him: their board has him No. 28 among corners and No. 18 in California, against the Composite’s 19th and 10th.
None of that is a correction of Gene Ross, who is the only reason we know about either of these visits. “Top defensive back” is a phrase outlets use loosely and somebody’s board may well agree with him. Ours names the board it read, the page it read it on, and the day.
What we could not read
The two posts embedded in that article, one from Hayes Fawcett on the Williams list and one from Rivals on Hall, were not opened and are not cited. This site does not credit a post it did not read, and Land-Grant Holy Land is the outlet of record for both items here.
Neither man is on the 2028 board’s pledge list, and neither is going on it. That board admits commitments and nothing else, the same rule that kept Zion Coger’s August offer and Kavon Blackmon’s forecast off it. Hall’s October 10 date joins them as reported coverage, which is what a visit is: an event somebody published, not a claim about where he lands.
We also publish the NCAA’s fall recruiting calendar, and it is scoped to the 2027 cycle’s senior fall. It is not the document that answers what October 10 permits for a sophomore, so nothing here says that it does.
And the obvious question about a No. 2 overall recruit, which is whether Ohio State is actually in front, has no sourced answer today. Hall has not released a list. Nobody has filed a Crystal Ball on him. Ten schools are on his fall schedule, and one of them plays Maryland on October 10.
