Recruiting weekend in review | What to expect from Buckeyes' 2021 linebackers

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It was a huge recruiting weekend for Ohio State and we look back on it on today's show. What is the latest with 4-star safeties Zion Branch and Xavier Nwankpa? What about 5-star defensive lineman Omari Abor?

Also, the Buckeyes want at least four offensive linemen in their 2022 class and they have just one so far. Three OLs took visits to Columbus this weekend that OSU could land: Zach Rice, Aamil Wagner and George Fitzpatrick.

And to close the show, we take a close look at Ohio State's 2021 linebackers. All of that and more is coming your way on the Monday 5ish.

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0:00.0	Good morning, Bucknutters.
0:29.8	Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Monday, June 7, 2021.
0:34.3	I am Dave Vittel flying solo on this edition of the show.
0:37.3	Let's take a look back on the big recruiting weekend that it was for the
0:41.1	Buck guys. No commitments officially, but it was a really good weekend to the
0:46.2	Buck guys. Let's take a look back on it.
0:48.2	As our Bill Curlyk reported, the dean of Ohio State football
0:51.4	recruiting, Zion Branch has been a crystal ball to the Buck guys.
0:54.9	He is the number four safety in the country, the number 49 overall
0:59.2	player in the country in the 2022 class, the number one overall player in the
1:03.7	state of Nevada out of Bishop Gorman High School in Vegas.
1:08.1	Same high school as Haskell Garrett. Same high school as Tate Martell.
1:12.1	And it looks like Zion Branch will be a Buck guy. When the dean puts a crystal
1:16.8	ball on a player to the Buck guys, you can lock that in.
1:21.2	So that is great news. Zion Branch to the Buck guys.
1:24.5	Looks like that's going to happen. We'll see when that happens, but he loved his
1:28.3	visit and it looks like he will be a Buck guy.
1:30.6	And they might land another highly rated safety, Xavier
1:34.8	Nowankba, the number five safety in the country, number 71 overall
1:39.2	player in the country, according to the composite.
1:41.7	The dean says he is close to crystal balling Nowankba to the Buck guys,
1:46.4	not quite there yet, but man, looks like they're going to get branch
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