Recruiting Outlook is a new weekly series on Buckeye Sports Bulletin designed to be your one-stop shop for all news related to the Ohio State football recruiting trail.
Ohio State fifth-year senior punter Drue Chrisman and senior kicker Blake Haubeil were named to the watch lists for the Ray Guy Award and Lou Groza Award, respectively.
Kickin’ it! Two more @OhioStateFB Buckeyes have been named to respective national award watch lists: @DChrisman91 to the @RayGuyAward and @blakehaubeil95 to the Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker. #GoBuckeyes!
— Jerry Emig (@BuckeyeNotes) July 22, 2020
The Ray Guy Award honors the best punter in the country, while The Lou Groza Award represents the top kicker nationally. Read More
In an interview with 97.1 The Fan’s Bishop and Laurinaitis on Wednesday morning, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said the Buckeyes will begin walk-through practices this Friday and then open fall camp on Aug. 7.
Gene Smith – @OSU_AD – (Ohio State Athletic Director) 7-22-20 https://t.co/jimgoKZBBD
— Bishop and Laurinaitis (@971BLS) July 22, 2020
The walk-through practices begin a little more than a week after Ohio State Read More
Shaun Wade, a fourth-year junior cornerback, was named on the Bronko Nagurski Trophy watch list.
Here is our preseason watch list, featuring 98 of the nation's best defensive players. https://t.co/K3EFUsnAq9 pic.twitter.com/4syjy69bcy
— Nagurski Trophy (@NagurskiTrophy) July 21, 2020
Wade is one of 98 players to be named to the watch list for the Nagurski Trophy, which honors the top defensive player in the country annually. There were 10 selections from the Read More
Ohio State offensive linemen Wyatt Davis, Thayer Munford and Josh Myers on Tuesday afternoon were named to the watch list for the Outland Trophy, which is presented annually to college football’s best offensive lineman or interior defensive lineman.
The Buckeyes are one of three program to have at least three Read More
Shaun Wade, a fourth-year junior cornerback, represented Ohio State on the Jim Thorpe Award watch list.
Wade is one of 49 defensive backs to be named to the watch list for the Thorpe Award, which honors the nation’s top defensive back each year.
Official 2020 Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Preseason Watch List – https://t.co/YnIFSb5v4J pic.twitter.com/SWksFIuuw5
— Paycom Jim Thorpe Award (@jimthorpeaward) July 20, 2020
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Trinity Christian Read More
Ohio State linebackers Tuf Borland, Baron Browning and Pete Werner were named to the watch list for the Dick Butkus Award on Monday morning, which makes the Buckeyes the only program in the country to place three linebackers on the list.
Here we go! Three standout, senior linebackers for @OhioStateFB represent the program on the initial watch list for the @ButkusAward2020: @Tuf_Borland, @baronbrwnng and @petewerner23. Ohio State is the only school with three LBs on the watch list.
— Jerry Emig (@BuckeyeNotes) July 20, 2020
A four-star prospect from Bolingbrook, Ill., Borland will Read More
Ohio State ended its brief recruiting dry-spell on Sunday in an emphatic fashion, completing what was essentially an extended flip of one-time Clemson commit Jordan Hancock, who ended his commitment to the Tigers on July 14, a little over four months after his original commitment back in March.
The four-star Read More
With the return of football up in the air, now serves as a perfect time for reflection on the history of football, and the strategic evolution of the game. To do that, the film study will be spending the offseason looking back at classic Ohio State games. Today’s film study Read More
Suwanee (Ga.) North Gwinnett four-star cornerback Jordan Hancock committed to Ohio State on Sunday afternoon, a move that felt inevitable from the time he decommitted from Clemson a few days earlier.
1000% COMMITTED 🌰⭕️
I AM A BUCKEYE FOR LIFE ❤️ pic.twitter.com/VKGkvXxDfu— jordan hancock (@jordanhancock_7) July 19, 2020
The 6-1, 171-pound Hancock is considered the sixth-best cornerback and No. 77 prospect overall in the class of Read More
