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Home Grown: Justin Hilliard Molded By Culture, People at St. Xavier

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 12 Ohio high school programs who produced Buckeyes in 2015.

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

CINCINNATI — Justin Hilliard's been pushed before, just like the rest of his teammates and friends at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati. That's the way things work at the perennial Greater Catholic League South power, but not even Hilliard, the crown jewel in Ohio State's latest football recruiting class, expected what came during one of his first visits to campus.