COLUMBUS — Ohio State held its third of four one-day recruiting camps on Tuesday, with the fourth coming Thursday. I was there with a pen.
1. Ohio State continues to pour a lot into defensive line recruiting, with DJ Jacobs, the Buckeyes’ five-star headliner in the Class of 2027, taking his official visit over the weekend. The No. 4 overall recruit in the 247sports composite rankings for 2027 posted photos from his Columbus photo shoot on Instagram with a caption labeled “home.”
Tuesday, another five-star defensive lineman was on campus in 2028 prospect Tyzon Swann, the No. 5 overall recruit in that class according to the 247sports composite.
Swann also recently visited USC and Michigan, and told reporters good things about those schools. But after working out at Ohio State’s camp on Tuesday, when asked for teams on his list, he mentioned the Buckeyes, Florida, Alabama and Auburn.
The Buckeyes already have the No. 4 interior defensive lineman in the Class of 2028 committed in Dayton’s Jameer Whyce. They had the No. 2 lineman, Kentucky’s Kellan Hall, at a camp last week.
A Whyce-Hall-Swann trio seems impossible — that would be too many resources at one position. But adding Hall or Swann to a Whyce commit would be a major, but possible, haul. And Swann knows his Buckeyes.