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LGHL Ohio State trending for four-star defensive lineman, former Michigan lean
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Ohio State trending for four-star defensive lineman, former Michigan lean
Gene Ross via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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2025 DL Maxwell Roy | USA Today Sports
The Buckeyes are the trendy pick for a 2025 DL originally predicted to land with the Wolverines.
Ohio State is on one heck of a run on the recruiting trail right now, adding seven new commitments to its 2025 class since the start of June. Altogether, the Buckeyes have 10 top-100 players in this cycle thus far, per the 247Sports Composite rankings, with six being top-50 nationally. Ryan Day and his staff have to be thrilled with how things have gone to this point, but they are not nearly done.
On Tuesday, the tide seemed to have turned in a positive direction with another big target, as a flood of new Crystal Ball predictions in favor of Ohio State came in for four-star defensive lineman Maxwell Roy. These latest predictions come after Roy was previously pegged towards Michigan earlier this month.
Roy, the No. 19 DL and No. 152 player nationally per 247Sports, took official visits to both Ohio State and Michigan this month, with the Wolverines hosting him in Ann Arbor this past weekend. It appears as though things have changed dramatically coming away from that TTUN visit, as the industry consensus has now fully flipped in the Buckeyes’ favor. Four different 247Sports Crystal Balls were logged for Ohio State on Tuesday, including from Michigan insider Sam Webb, as well as a pair of On3 RPM’s.
Roy, a Pennsylvania native, plays his high school football at St. Joseph’s Prep, the same program that produced both Marvin Harrison Jr. and Kyle McCord as well as current Ohio State running back commit Isaiah West. The 6-foot-3, 270-pound defensive lineman has around 20 offers to his name, but cut his list down to six schools back in February, including the Buckeyes and Wolverines alongside Duke, Oregon, Rutgers and Wisconsin.
Should Roy decide to commit to Ohio State, which could be some time in the not-so-distant future, it would add to an already impressive haul for position coach Larry Johnson that already includes four-stars Zahir Mathis and London Merritt in addition to the latest four-star commitment, Zion Grady. The Buckeyes also remain the favorites to land Justin Hill and Mariyon Dye, and are seemingly in good standing with current Auburn commit Malik Autry, who is very close with Grady.
Flipping to the other side of the trenches, Ohio State received more good news for a different prospect also named Maxwell — this time in the 2026 class. That would be offensive tackle Maxwell Riley, who included the Buckeyes among his top seven schools on Tuesday.
Riley is one of the best offensive linemen in the country in the junior cycle as the No. 6 OT and No. 35 overall prospect in the 2026 class, per 247Sports. The No. 1 player in Ohio has cut his list down from nearly 30 offers down to just seven programs, with Ohio State making the cut alongside Alabama, Clemson, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri and Oklahoma. The Buckeyes have both Crystal Ball predictions for Riley on 247Sports and Rivals, each of which were logged last year.
The 6-foot-5, 263-pound tackle from Avon Lake, OH made at least five unofficial visits to Ohio State in 2023 — once in April for the Spring Game, once over the summer, again for the Buckeyes’ wins over Youngstown State and Penn State during the season, and once more during preparation for the Cotton Bowl. Riley, who grew up rooting for Ohio State, received his official offer from Justin Frye in March of last year.
Ohio State currently has one commitment in the 2026 class in five-star wide receiver Chris Henry Jr., and certainly wouldn’t hate Riley entering the fold sooner rather than later to get a head start on building up the trenches yet again.
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Gene Ross via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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2025 DL Maxwell Roy | USA Today Sports
The Buckeyes are the trendy pick for a 2025 DL originally predicted to land with the Wolverines.
Ohio State is on one heck of a run on the recruiting trail right now, adding seven new commitments to its 2025 class since the start of June. Altogether, the Buckeyes have 10 top-100 players in this cycle thus far, per the 247Sports Composite rankings, with six being top-50 nationally. Ryan Day and his staff have to be thrilled with how things have gone to this point, but they are not nearly done.
On Tuesday, the tide seemed to have turned in a positive direction with another big target, as a flood of new Crystal Ball predictions in favor of Ohio State came in for four-star defensive lineman Maxwell Roy. These latest predictions come after Roy was previously pegged towards Michigan earlier this month.
Roy, the No. 19 DL and No. 152 player nationally per 247Sports, took official visits to both Ohio State and Michigan this month, with the Wolverines hosting him in Ann Arbor this past weekend. It appears as though things have changed dramatically coming away from that TTUN visit, as the industry consensus has now fully flipped in the Buckeyes’ favor. Four different 247Sports Crystal Balls were logged for Ohio State on Tuesday, including from Michigan insider Sam Webb, as well as a pair of On3 RPM’s.
Roy, a Pennsylvania native, plays his high school football at St. Joseph’s Prep, the same program that produced both Marvin Harrison Jr. and Kyle McCord as well as current Ohio State running back commit Isaiah West. The 6-foot-3, 270-pound defensive lineman has around 20 offers to his name, but cut his list down to six schools back in February, including the Buckeyes and Wolverines alongside Duke, Oregon, Rutgers and Wisconsin.
Should Roy decide to commit to Ohio State, which could be some time in the not-so-distant future, it would add to an already impressive haul for position coach Larry Johnson that already includes four-stars Zahir Mathis and London Merritt in addition to the latest four-star commitment, Zion Grady. The Buckeyes also remain the favorites to land Justin Hill and Mariyon Dye, and are seemingly in good standing with current Auburn commit Malik Autry, who is very close with Grady.
Flipping to the other side of the trenches, Ohio State received more good news for a different prospect also named Maxwell — this time in the 2026 class. That would be offensive tackle Maxwell Riley, who included the Buckeyes among his top seven schools on Tuesday.
God has blessed me immensely with these opportunities. After much discussion with my family we have decided to narrow the list of prospective college football programs to seven. I will be concentrating on my relationships with these schools moving forward. Thank you & God Bless! pic.twitter.com/uborftpwlN
— Maxwell Riley(@bigmax2026) June 25, 2024
Riley is one of the best offensive linemen in the country in the junior cycle as the No. 6 OT and No. 35 overall prospect in the 2026 class, per 247Sports. The No. 1 player in Ohio has cut his list down from nearly 30 offers down to just seven programs, with Ohio State making the cut alongside Alabama, Clemson, Florida State, Michigan State, Missouri and Oklahoma. The Buckeyes have both Crystal Ball predictions for Riley on 247Sports and Rivals, each of which were logged last year.
The 6-foot-5, 263-pound tackle from Avon Lake, OH made at least five unofficial visits to Ohio State in 2023 — once in April for the Spring Game, once over the summer, again for the Buckeyes’ wins over Youngstown State and Penn State during the season, and once more during preparation for the Cotton Bowl. Riley, who grew up rooting for Ohio State, received his official offer from Justin Frye in March of last year.
Ohio State currently has one commitment in the 2026 class in five-star wide receiver Chris Henry Jr., and certainly wouldn’t hate Riley entering the fold sooner rather than later to get a head start on building up the trenches yet again.
Quick Hits
- Speaking of the trenches, Ohio State is still working hard to try and land five-star offensive tackle David Sanders Jr. The Buckeyes have been jockeying for position with Tennessee, as it feels like the battle has come down to those two programs after Clemson was once in the lead with Georgia also still hanging around. Sanders is the No. 1 OT and No. 2 player nationally per the 247Sports Composite, and would obviously be an incredible addition to Ohio State’s already impressive 2025 class.
The father of Five-star Plus+ OT @DavidLSandersJr spoke with @LettermenRow about the family's Ohio State official visit️
Sanders Jr. is the No. 2 overall prospect in the On3 Industry Rankings
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— Mick Walker (@mickdwalker) June 25, 2024
- The aforementioned Malik Autry, a four-star defensive lineman currently committed to Auburn, was repping Ohio State gear at the Rivals Five-Star event down in Jacksonville, Florida. The Buckeyes’ newest commit Zion Grady is good friends with Autry, and has been actively recruiting the 6-foot-5, 320-pound DL to join him in Columbus. Autry is a five-star prospect by 247Sports’ rankings, coming in as the No. 4 DL and No. 29 player nationally.
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LGHL You’re Nuts: Unexpected Ohio State record holders
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You’re Nuts: Unexpected Ohio State record holders
Josh Dooley via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images
Which name pops out to you in the Buckeyes’ record books?
From now until preseason camp starts in August, Land-Grant Holy Land will be writing articles around a different theme every week. This week is all about records, the ones that have been broken, the ones that could be broken, and the ones that will never be broken. You can catch up on all of the Theme Week content here and all of our ”Broken Records” articles here.
Everybody knows that one of the best parts of being a sports fan is debating and dissecting the most (and least) important questions in the sporting world with your friends. So, we’re bringing that to the pages of LGHL with our favorite head-to-head column: You’re Nuts.
In You’re Nuts, two LGHL staff members will take differing sides of one question and argue their opinions passionately. Then, in the end, it’s up to you to determine who’s right and who’s nuts.
This week is all about Broken Records here at LGHL, and because Gene and I have debated or discussed both unbreakable and most-likely-to-fall records in the past, we wanted to take a different approach this time around. We considered branching out from Ohio State football, and then football altogether, but in the end, that just didn’t feel like “us”. So my former co-host and I ultimately decided to try a surprising angle.
Surprising, as in: Which individual OSU football record(s) do we find most surprising? Because of the total, the timing or era it was set, the person who owns it, whatever. And I don’t’ know about Gene, but I assumed that finding one of these would be rather easy.
Instead, I found myself looking at just about every individual record and saying, “Yeah, that seems about right.” Or, “Yeah, that checks out.” Which made You’re Nuts a bit more challenging for yours truly.
Eventually, I settled on an Ohio State individual receiving record. Because no offense whatsoever to the player who holds this particular record, but when I think about the all-time great Buckeye pass catchers, it’s guys like Cris Carter, David Boston, and the “Hartline crew” who immediately come to mind... Not K.J. Hill.
Again, I feel compelled to say “no offense” because Hill was awesome during his time in Columbus. He contributed to a ton of wins and was a hell of a leader and teammate... But it’s still unlikely that he is one of the first 10 wide receivers who comes to mind when you think all-time records at OSU.
And yet, here we are! The record I am referring to is career receptions. Hill finished his Ohio State run with 201 receptions, 10 more than Boston (2nd), 33 more than Carter (4th), and 46 more than Marvin Harrison Jr. (6th) — all just for reference across different eras. In other words, Hill finished his OSU career with dozens (!) more receptions than several first-round NFL Draft picks, at least one NFL Hall of Famer, and perhaps the most talented WR in program history. Not too shabby.
Hill was able to surpass the 200 mark because he was incredibly consistent, and impressively contributed for four seasons. However, he topped out at 70 receptions in 2018, barely cracking the top-10 of the single season record list. Which is part of why I find his record so surprising. 70 is not a massive number, and you would think that one of the other all-time greats – specifically one from the recent Hartline receiving tree – could or would have averaged 70 over three seasons, giving them 210 (or more). But that’s just not the case.
Chris Olave probably had the most Hill-like career, at least from a consistency and longevity standpoint, and he finished with 176. And he (Olave) likely would have broken the record if not for the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. But we can’t go back and change history, and the fact of the matter is that Olave was the only one from or out of the Olave/Wilson/JSN/Harrison Jr. group to even sniff Hill’s total. The other three didn’t even come close!
So yeah, Hill’s career receptions record is both impressive and very, very surprising. To me, at least. And kudos to him, again, because he really was a great Buckeye.
As Josh laid out, many of the record holders for Ohio State just make sense. The Buckeyes’ rushing records are stacked with the Archie Griffin’s, Eddie George’s and Ezekiel Elliott’s of the world. The receiving records are full of Michael Jenkins, David Boston, Cris Carter and the more recent talents under Hartline. Many of the passing marks are led by J.T. Barrett or Dwayne Haskins, as the Ohio State passing game really changed under Ryan Day.
So for this exercise, I’m going to go way outside the box. The season-long and career-long marks are tough to accomplish by a somewhat ‘random’ player. At a program with the history and magnitude of Ohio State, the main records are held by the names you would expect. Instead, one name stood out to me among some of the more one-off single-game marks. That would be the man who holds the single-game completion percentage record (minimum of 10 passes).
That, of course, is none other than Buckeyes’ legend Tate Martell, when he went 10-for-10 in mop up duty against Rutgers in 2018 for the only percent 100% completion rate with at least that many passes on record.
Ohio State jumped out to a huge lead against the Scarlet Knights with a dominant performance by Dwayne Haskins. The QB completed 20-of-23 passes for 233 yards and four touchdowns with no turnovers, while J.K. Dobbins paced starters in the ground game with 12 carries for 73 yards and a score. With the Buckeyes jumping out to a 42-0 lead on a 44-yard TD from Haskins to Johnnie Dixon, it was time for then-interim head coach Ryan Day to empty his bench.
In came Martell, who led Ohio State on an 11-play, 58-yard drive that resulted in a field goal in his first series. After a punt on the ensuing possession, Martell took matters into his own hands with a 47-yard TD run to extend the Buckeyes’ lead to 52-3, and from there the home team would virtually run out the clock.
Martell finished the game a perfect 10-for-10 passing for 121 yards and a touchdown (which actually came in the second quarter before mop-up duty). The quarterback also led Ohio State in rushing in the game with eight carries for 95 yards and the long score. It seemed as though the dual-threat QB was destined to at least compete for the starting job in Columbus the following season, but that obviously was not the case once Justin Fields transferred in.
A high four-star prospect as the No. 2 dual-threat and No. 56 overall player in the 2017 class per the 247Sports Composite, Martell elected to take his talents to Miami, where he would try to win the quarterback job before eventually moving to wide receiver for a bit. The Las Vegas native would throw only one total pass for the Hurricanes (a 7-yard completion) before transferring to UNLV for his final collegiate season.
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Josh Dooley via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images
Which name pops out to you in the Buckeyes’ record books?
From now until preseason camp starts in August, Land-Grant Holy Land will be writing articles around a different theme every week. This week is all about records, the ones that have been broken, the ones that could be broken, and the ones that will never be broken. You can catch up on all of the Theme Week content here and all of our ”Broken Records” articles here.
Everybody knows that one of the best parts of being a sports fan is debating and dissecting the most (and least) important questions in the sporting world with your friends. So, we’re bringing that to the pages of LGHL with our favorite head-to-head column: You’re Nuts.
In You’re Nuts, two LGHL staff members will take differing sides of one question and argue their opinions passionately. Then, in the end, it’s up to you to determine who’s right and who’s nuts.
This week’s topic: Under-the-radar Ohio State record holders
Josh’s Take
This week is all about Broken Records here at LGHL, and because Gene and I have debated or discussed both unbreakable and most-likely-to-fall records in the past, we wanted to take a different approach this time around. We considered branching out from Ohio State football, and then football altogether, but in the end, that just didn’t feel like “us”. So my former co-host and I ultimately decided to try a surprising angle.
Surprising, as in: Which individual OSU football record(s) do we find most surprising? Because of the total, the timing or era it was set, the person who owns it, whatever. And I don’t’ know about Gene, but I assumed that finding one of these would be rather easy.
Instead, I found myself looking at just about every individual record and saying, “Yeah, that seems about right.” Or, “Yeah, that checks out.” Which made You’re Nuts a bit more challenging for yours truly.
Eventually, I settled on an Ohio State individual receiving record. Because no offense whatsoever to the player who holds this particular record, but when I think about the all-time great Buckeye pass catchers, it’s guys like Cris Carter, David Boston, and the “Hartline crew” who immediately come to mind... Not K.J. Hill.
Again, I feel compelled to say “no offense” because Hill was awesome during his time in Columbus. He contributed to a ton of wins and was a hell of a leader and teammate... But it’s still unlikely that he is one of the first 10 wide receivers who comes to mind when you think all-time records at OSU.
And yet, here we are! The record I am referring to is career receptions. Hill finished his Ohio State run with 201 receptions, 10 more than Boston (2nd), 33 more than Carter (4th), and 46 more than Marvin Harrison Jr. (6th) — all just for reference across different eras. In other words, Hill finished his OSU career with dozens (!) more receptions than several first-round NFL Draft picks, at least one NFL Hall of Famer, and perhaps the most talented WR in program history. Not too shabby.
Hill was able to surpass the 200 mark because he was incredibly consistent, and impressively contributed for four seasons. However, he topped out at 70 receptions in 2018, barely cracking the top-10 of the single season record list. Which is part of why I find his record so surprising. 70 is not a massive number, and you would think that one of the other all-time greats – specifically one from the recent Hartline receiving tree – could or would have averaged 70 over three seasons, giving them 210 (or more). But that’s just not the case.
Chris Olave probably had the most Hill-like career, at least from a consistency and longevity standpoint, and he finished with 176. And he (Olave) likely would have broken the record if not for the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. But we can’t go back and change history, and the fact of the matter is that Olave was the only one from or out of the Olave/Wilson/JSN/Harrison Jr. group to even sniff Hill’s total. The other three didn’t even come close!
So yeah, Hill’s career receptions record is both impressive and very, very surprising. To me, at least. And kudos to him, again, because he really was a great Buckeye.
Gene’s Take
As Josh laid out, many of the record holders for Ohio State just make sense. The Buckeyes’ rushing records are stacked with the Archie Griffin’s, Eddie George’s and Ezekiel Elliott’s of the world. The receiving records are full of Michael Jenkins, David Boston, Cris Carter and the more recent talents under Hartline. Many of the passing marks are led by J.T. Barrett or Dwayne Haskins, as the Ohio State passing game really changed under Ryan Day.
So for this exercise, I’m going to go way outside the box. The season-long and career-long marks are tough to accomplish by a somewhat ‘random’ player. At a program with the history and magnitude of Ohio State, the main records are held by the names you would expect. Instead, one name stood out to me among some of the more one-off single-game marks. That would be the man who holds the single-game completion percentage record (minimum of 10 passes).
That, of course, is none other than Buckeyes’ legend Tate Martell, when he went 10-for-10 in mop up duty against Rutgers in 2018 for the only percent 100% completion rate with at least that many passes on record.
Ohio State jumped out to a huge lead against the Scarlet Knights with a dominant performance by Dwayne Haskins. The QB completed 20-of-23 passes for 233 yards and four touchdowns with no turnovers, while J.K. Dobbins paced starters in the ground game with 12 carries for 73 yards and a score. With the Buckeyes jumping out to a 42-0 lead on a 44-yard TD from Haskins to Johnnie Dixon, it was time for then-interim head coach Ryan Day to empty his bench.
In came Martell, who led Ohio State on an 11-play, 58-yard drive that resulted in a field goal in his first series. After a punt on the ensuing possession, Martell took matters into his own hands with a 47-yard TD run to extend the Buckeyes’ lead to 52-3, and from there the home team would virtually run out the clock.
Martell finished the game a perfect 10-for-10 passing for 121 yards and a touchdown (which actually came in the second quarter before mop-up duty). The quarterback also led Ohio State in rushing in the game with eight carries for 95 yards and the long score. It seemed as though the dual-threat QB was destined to at least compete for the starting job in Columbus the following season, but that obviously was not the case once Justin Fields transferred in.
A high four-star prospect as the No. 2 dual-threat and No. 56 overall player in the 2017 class per the 247Sports Composite, Martell elected to take his talents to Miami, where he would try to win the quarterback job before eventually moving to wide receiver for a bit. The Las Vegas native would throw only one total pass for the Hurricanes (a 7-yard completion) before transferring to UNLV for his final collegiate season.
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