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Buckeye Recruiting: Nation's No. 1 Player Dominates Ohio State Camp · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning. For Friday, June seventh, timem your host
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  Tom Moore. The Akron game in eighty five days, the game against Michigan
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  in one hundred and seventy six days. Ohio State just wrapped up its second
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  camp of the summer. One of the biggest names who is probably going to
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  be at any of these camps all summer was at Ohio State on Thursday.
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  It's Mark Vler. No, it's not Mark Ivler. Mark Kivler was there
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  following Jaqem Stewart around pretty much all day. Jaqem Stewart the number one player
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  in the class of twenty twenty six four now. And generally at these camps,
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  you know, there's hundreds of kids out there. You can generally tell
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  the high high power Conference level prospects from the other guys, you know,
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  from a little bit of a distance. This is one where before he even
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  walked out, you know, across the room, you know, the big
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  indoor facility, it was just kind of like, oh, I bet that's
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  she came Stewart, and yeah, that was Jaciam Stewart. He kind of
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  you look at him and you go, yeah, that looks like a guy
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  who's probably the number one overall player in his class. Yeah, he's impressive.
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  I had several parents kind of stopping me asking me who he was,
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  and I'm trying to explain to people who he was and dominated today. Did
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  all the drill work, did all the one on ones, didn't you know,
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  get the superstar treatment or whatever. He went and did everything out there
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  today, So it was a very rewarding workout. I got to talk to
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  him afterwards. Building a great relationship with Larry Johnson has a great relationship with
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  Lal and Clark because they're both from the same part of the country, so
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  you know his I even talked to his coach about you know, this is
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  the second visit in two months. I said, you know, what does
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  that mean and kind of the answer was, well, his time's valuable,
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  and so he's gonna go where he's interested in seriously considering going, and right
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  now, HIVES he looks to be one of those schools along with USC and
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  LSU, those those three seemed to be the ones that maybe have the most
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  traction. They're the ones getting a lot of the visits well, and it
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  feels like a lot of times we see guys come up to camp with Larry
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  Johnson. Because if you're the guy who had Joey Bosa's defensive line coach,
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  Chase Young's defensive line coach, Nick Blos's defensive line coach, that carries a
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  lot of weight with guys. Did he have anything to say about working,
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  specifically the opportunity to work with Larry Johnson in this kind of setting. Yeah,
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  I mean that's that's what he wants to get better. He wants,
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  you know, he told me, like he relishes the opportunity to do these
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  types of things and learn and get better. And he said, you know,
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  him and Larry Johnson had a good relationship out there, he said.
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  He but he mentions coach Clark too, just because they've they've got such a
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  connection from their time from luis from being from Louisiana, and just like he's
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  just had he can speak to him in kind of a language, in his
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  language, so to speak, French language occasion, yes, yes, but
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  yeah, so just that was a big part for coming up here, he
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  said, was to do the workout, because he did come up in the
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  spring and kind of do a lot of the other stuff. All right,
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  So that's and you know what I was going to ask you about him reclassifying.
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  I know that's sort of been lots of rumblings about that. Was there
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  any sort of indication from him as to whether he was seriously thinking about that?
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  Yeah, I mean he gave the same answer he gave us on Southern
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  Swing, which is essentially he's letting his coaches worry about that, and when
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  the time comes in a few months to actually have to make that decision,
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  he'll sit down as his coach and they'll they'll talk about it. That's his
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  on the record public comments. Yeah, do I think he's gonna reclassify?
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  Yes, I do. He is taking the coursework to do it. That
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  doesn't mean he has to, but he's taking the coursework to do it.
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  I tend to think by the time things start to get going here in the
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  fall, that he's going to understand that. I don't know what's going to
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  be left for him in high school unless he just wants to go to senior
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  prom and do other do the other high school things. I don't know that
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  there's a whole lot left for him to to really develop. He's he's about
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  the most physically developed defensive lineman think I've ever seen at this stage. I
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  mean, it's crazy. He's like forty fifty pounds heavier than Chase Young was
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  at the same age. Yeah. Yeah, he looks like a guy who
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  should be thinking about his second NFL contract and not starting his potentially junior year
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  of high school. Is it is remarkable to see him, to see him
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  in person. We have a longstanding idea that it is the year of the
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  tight end, and it is always the year of the tight end, never
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  never more though than in the present year twenty twenty four. Today was kind
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  of the day of the tight end. In Ohio State Camp, twenty twenty
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  five commit Nate Roberts was here chance to see him work a bunch of twenty
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  twenty six tight ends as well. I mean, that was an impressive group,
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  and that's an area where they're gonna probably be looking to bring in a
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  guy or two still for twenty twenty six obviously, So you know, who
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  are some names that people should know. I'm afraid to do the too tight
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  end class because I do it every year because it seems like every year they
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  need to and then somehow something happens and maybe they do or maybe they don't
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  take too But just like every year we just h they're gonna take two tight
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  ends. But once again here we are and very possible. It's gonna be
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  hard to turn some of these guys away if they can get them. Brock
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  Harris a big time player, arguably the nation's top tight. Then Corbyn Fordham,
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  if we're talking guys who I think, Ohisi's got a really good chance
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  with Corbyn Fordham out of Jacksonville Bulls four star prospect, tons of offers,
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  has an offer here, already had it before today. That's a kid that
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  just walking around here, looked very excited to be here, had the Ohio
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  State like pull over on and on zip that at the high seat shirt on.
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  He was all about. He made sure the coaches saw it, and
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  Corbyn was was having a blast here. So I think that's a guy they
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  can get. I think that's a guy they want very much. And so
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  that's definitely a name to watch. But there's yeah, there are five or
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  six good ones here today and Corbyn Fordham was just one of the guys from
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  the Bowls school down in Jacksonville. That was a that is a very talented
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  group. The other side of the ball was a defensive back with some interesting
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  ties to Ohio State. Yes, Simeon calledwell Tim Walton's nephew and we joked
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  about this on Southern Swing. Someone told me, yeah, it's Tim Wulton's
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  nephew. This was several months ago. That's Tim Malton's nephew. I said,
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  Oh, they must have a good relationship, like that's his buddy or
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  whatever. Like, No, that's actually Tim Walton's nephew nephew. So that's
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  that's a nice in for Ohio State. Simon's another kid who talks very highly
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  about Ohio State again making it making it back up here. He's been up
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  here several times just throughout his youth and everything else. And so he's a
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  kid I think Ohio State can get as well. He's a safety right now,
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  could maybe be like a walkout linebacker at the next level, possibly like
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  a Sunny Styles type of linebacker. So he's a guy to keep an eye
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  on. I think they've got a great chance of getting him as well.
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  And not just because he's him Walton's nephew. He has a lot of genuine
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  interest in Ohio State. So and again with Corbyn Fordham being a teammate there
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  at Bull School in Jacksonville, that makes everything a little more comfortable for everybody.
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  And he's a twenty sixth right those twenty six is looking at him.
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  He does have kind of that sunny styles frame where he's just like noticeably bigger
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  than a lot of other guys, just cooler, yep, wider shoulders.
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  So you could potentially see, you know, potentially growing into a linebacker or
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  staying in safety. There last spot did when I touch on real quick,
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  I know it is not the spot. You know, this is not the
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  position group that is going to drive everyone to click on this video. Top
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  two kickers in the class of twenty twenty six were at Ohio State on Thursday.
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  They actually had like seven of the top eleven kickers in the country.
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  It was an incredible group of kickers. Jonathan Hewitt, who was an in
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  state prospect for twenty twenty six, he's ranked me number one kicker in the
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  class. Haran zurrakat number two kicker in the class of twenty twenty six.
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  Both of those guys got a chance. They the kickers went before everyone else,
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  So I got to sit out there and get pictures of everyone and watch
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  everyone. And I mean there were some there's some serious legs. Jonathan the
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  the in state prospect number one, hit a fifty seven yard er in high
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  school last year, so you know this is this is a legit, legit
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  leg You know this is that's the position group where you're not necessarily rushing out
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  to offer guys who've just finished their sophmorewo kicker class, Tom, I'm going
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  to guess it's more likely they have a two tight end class that a two
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  kicker class, but you never know. We'll see how the roster management goes
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  between now and then. But yeah, just a couple of names just kind
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  of file away, not not you know, no offers yet, but definitely
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  people who are potentially in that picture for Ohio State and special teams moving forward.
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  So that was that was our camp look at camp from Thursday, end
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  of week one at Ohio State A summer camps. We'll be back here next
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  week for three I think back to back. I think it is a Monday,
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  Tuesday, Wednesday next week. So very busy week and again lots of
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  interesting prospects. You get to see a lot of guys, get to uh,
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  get to talk to some folks, get some inside information. So always
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  always good to be bat out here. And it's nice to be back at
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  at the Woody after a little bit of an off season and a nice reminder
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