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Breakdown of Ohio State’s 2021 enrollees shows Buckeyes’ recruiting dominance
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Ohio State will always recruit at a high level. It happened under Jim Tressel, improved under Urban Meyer and somehow has gotten even more impressive under Ryan Day.
A recent breakdown of the players enrolling at Ohio State in 2021 breaks down just how dominant the Buckeyes have been on the recruiting front. FOX’s R.J. Young did a lot of the work.
Based on the 247Sports Composite rankings, Ohio State has welcomed the top-ranked player at four position groups to Columbus at some point in 2021, either as an early enrollee or in the summer. The most recent addition was Quinn Ewers, the 5-star quarterback who decided to skip his senior year of high school to join the Buckeyes.
That means Ohio State is bringing to campus the following:
- 2021 No. 1 wide receiver: Emeka Egbuka
- 2021 No. 1 running back: TreVeyon Henderson
- 2021 No. 1 interior offensive lineman: Donovan Jackson
- 2022 No. 1 quarterback: Quinn Ewers
Ohio State has seen the
2021 No. 1 wide receiver
2021 No. 1 running back
2022 No. 1 quarterback
2021 No. 1 interior offensive lineman
2021 No. 1 defensive lineman
all enroll *this year.*
— RJ Young (@RJ_Young) August 2, 2021
Young also put the No. 1 defensive lineman on the list, but that’s no longer true. However, Ohio State does have two of the Top 3 defensive linemen in the class on campus — J.T. Tuimoloau and Jack Sawyer.
That’s a pretty impressive group.
Ohio State’s 2021 recruiting class finished No. 2 nationally and No. 1 in the B1G. The Buckeyes owned the country’s top-ranked class of 2022, but with Ewers reclassifying, they dropped down to No. 3, behind Penn State and Alabama.
Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB