Ohio State currently holds a commitment from a composite top-70 prospect in every defensive position group with six total defensive commitments from that echelon of high school seniors.
Accumulating that much talent on that side of the ball in one recruiting class is unprecedented thus far in the Ryan Day era. Even though the Buckeyes assembled top-five classes overall in each of Day’s first five full recruiting cycles as head coach from 2020 through 2024, those classes contained zero, four, four, one and three defensive prospects ranked among the top 70 players in 247Sports’ composite rankings.
It’s no coincidence that defensive recruiting success is coming off of Ohio State’s best defensive season statistically in the past five years.