Ohio State hosted a small, but talented group of prospects for its first weekend of official visits, with three five-star players on campus and five top-200 players.
Now for the second weekend, the Buckeyes will host a few more players, but there is no shortage of talent coming to Columbus.
The top player who will be on an official visit to Ohio State this weekend is five-star wide receiver Eric McFarland III, the only five-star scheduled to be in town. He is ranked the No. 25 player in the country and the No. 5 wide receiver.
The Buckeyes will also host four-star defensive end Justin Weeks, four-star linebacker Kaylon Bailey, four-star cornerback Jaden Carey and four-star running back Jayden Miles.
Carey has taken an official visit to Miami (Fla.) and is also scheduled to take another to Auburn (June 19). The Buckeyes have not received a commitment in the 2027 class from a cornerback to this point but seem to be in a good spot with Carey and multiple others who will be visiting OSU at a later date.
Ohio State commits who are set to be on campus are four-star defensive end Wyatt Smith, four-star safety Eli Johnson and three-star safety Angelo Smith, the brother of star wide receiver Jeremiah Smith.
Angelo Smith has already been on another official visit to South Florida, where former OSU wide receivers coach Brian Hartline took the head coaching job in December. Neither of Wyatt Smith or Johnson are schedule to take visits elsewhere at this point, according to 247Sports.
Four-Star WR Commits To Washington
The Buckeyes missed out on a wide receiver target on Tuesday when four-star Tre Moore committed to Washington. He chose the Huskies over Miami and Ohio State.
After catching 85 passes for 1,443 yards and 19 touchdowns last season at Plugerville Weiss High School in Texas, Moore is up to No. 160 in the 247Sports composite and is ranked as the No. 21 wide receiver in the country.
The Buckeyes already have five-star receiver Jamier Brown in the class, who shut down his recruitment already, and they have more wide receivers on the radar still.
QB Target Named Elite 11 MVP
Ohio State has had its 2027 quarterback, four-star Brady Edmunds of Huntington Beach High School, committed since December of 2024, but the Buckeyes have been showing interest in other signal callers in the class.
One of those quarterbacks is Nebraska commit Trae Taylor, a four-star out of Millard South High School in Omaha, Neb. — where he transferred over the offseason to play his senior year — who was named the MVP of the Elite 11 finals over the weekend.
Taylor is ranked as the No. 60 player in the 2027 class and the No. 4 quarterback and is nearly in five-star range at 0.9756 in the 247Sports composite, where 0.98 is a five-star. The director of scouting at 247Sports, Andrew Ivins says in his scouting report that Taylor reminds him of former Buckeye quarterback C.J. Stroud.
In the 7-on-7 portion of the Elite 11 finals, Taylor threw for seven touchdowns and completed 16 of his 20 passes.
Edmunds has said recently that he is still committed to the Buckeyes, but he has been keeping some options open, posting on Twitter that he was visited by the UCLA offensive coordinator, Dean Kennedy, and Northwestern offensive coordinator Chip Kelly. Now, Edmunds is set to be on an official visit to UCLA this weekend.
Edmunds also participated in the Elite 11 finals and was ranked by 247Sports as the 11th quarterback out of the 20 who participated in the three-day event.
