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On Sunday, Hicks was recognized as one of the top linebackers in the camp.
“It was a blessing,” he said. “Gabe and Dasan were both injured, so I had to go out and do my best.”
Hicks confirmed it was the first time he had met his future linebacker teammates Powers and McCullough.
“It was cool,” he said. “This was my first time seeing Gabe and Dasan. I see Tegra and Jyaire a lot. I will see them next week at the spring game, too.”
Hicks received his offer in April 2020 and verbaled to the Buckeyes on May 1, 2020. Before and after, he has received just over 30 offers including from the likes of Alabama, LSU, Oregon, Clemson and much of the Big Ten.
He talked about how he became friends with various prospects online and noticed McCullough, also a national top 50 prospect, had mentioned Ohio State. The two struck up an online friendship.
“Once I committed, I was going on Instagram one day,” Hicks said. “I had already followed him. I was scrolling through my highlights and I saw he had all of his schools up there and under Ohio State it said ‘LBU’. I took a screen shot of it and said, ‘If it’s LBU, why don’t you come and be a part of it.’ He said he would think about it.
“He eventually committed and it was great to finally meet him in person here.”
Hicks has done his best to help Ohio State recruit players for the 2022 recruiting class. That 11-man class is currently ranked No. 1 nationally in the 247Sports Composite rankings. For his efforts, Hicks was named Captain Buckeye by his fellow recruits.
“I like it,” Hicks said of the title. “I feed into it on social media. Building a class, it’s me and Dasan and everybody. Guys gave me that title, but honestly it’s the whole class.”
Hicks said he is looking forward to the June 4 official visit weekend, when the Buckeyes will be hosting a handful of key prospects.
“After the visit, we are going to have a bunch of commits,” he said. “It’s going to be fun. I’ve never met Quinn (Ewers) or Caleb (Burton) or some of the other recruits. It will be good to meet them in person.”
The 6-4 Hicks is in the middle of the spring track season. He talked about what he is working on right now.
“Just being mobile and gaining weight,” he said. “I’m 218 right now. I’m trying to stay between 215 and 220 because I’m still running track. Next year, I’m going to start at running back, play some at receiver, kick return and linebacker.”
I love hearing about this kid. I'm going to try my hardest to catch a Kettering game this season. He's going to be a monster at OSU, imo.
I hear what you're saying, and I don't necessarily disagree, but Dasan McCullough has the potential to be even better. And that should frighten the remainder of the B1G.Captain Buckeye is the best Ohio LB I've seen on film at his stage in HS in a very long time...I legit think he's a top 5 player overall nationally, he's that good. At the risk of side tracking this thread, I'm 32 years old and I haven't seen a better film from an Ohio LB... closest was D'Andrea and Freeman. Add on that he's such a great kid and recruiter, and I think we're going to have one of our all time favorites with this kid.