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Ohio State Trending Toward Taller Receivers in Recent Recruiting Classes

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Zone-6 is getting taller.

In recent recruiting classes, Ohio State is trending towards taller, longer receivers, and that's not an accident.

Urban Meyer's Receiver Recruits
Year Name Height Weight
2012 Michael Thomas 6-4 200
2012 Frank Epitropoulos 6-3 195
2012 Ricquan Southward 6-2 185
2013 Jalin Marshall 6-0 190
2013 Dontre Wilson 5-10 181
2013 James Clark 5-10 170
2013 Corey Smith 5-11 185
2014 Curtis Samuel 6-0 185
2014 Johnnie Dixon 5-10 187
2014 Parris Campbell 6-0 184
2014 Noah Brown 6-2 212
2014 Terry McLaurin 6-0 190
2015 KJ Hill 6-0 188
2015 Alex Stump 6-3 195
2016 Austin Mack 6-2 205
2016 Binjimen Victor 6-4 180
2017 Trevon Grimes 6-3 202
2017 Jaylen Harris 6-5 210
2017 Ellijah Gardiner 6-6 185
2018 Kamryn Babb 6-1 189
2018 L'Christian "Blue" Smith 6-6 205
2018 Cameron Brown 6-1 175

Between Meyer's first full recruiting class in 2013 and the 2015 class, the Buckeyes signed just two players – Noah Brown and Alex Stump – above six feet tall, out of the 11 total receivers that signed with the school in that span.