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Home Grown: Demario McCall Forged By Personal Determination, People At North Ridgeville

Urban Meyer knows better than anyone the importance to recruit the fruitful ground of the state of Ohio into his college football program. Due to this perception, Eleven Warriors will look at the 10 Ohio high school programs who produced Buckeyes in 2016.

Ohio Home Grown: Profiling the home-grown talent in Ohio State's 2015 class.

NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio — Demario McCall sat at a track meet with his father, Jermaine Bennett, an uncle and a few friends. One of the fastest sophomores in the state of Ohio and an electric talent on the football field, those closest to McCall wondered out loud when the gifted North Ridgeville running back would catch the eye of recruiters and coaches from the nation's top college football programs.