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Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. It is the triumphant return of Buckeye football futures.

I had totally forgotten about BFFs until today was looking back through some old podcasts.

You remember that Stephen and I are kind of bringing the band back together today.

I'm Nathan Barrett, Cleveland.com, along with Stephen Means.

We're recording this one week and one day ahead of the start of the early signing period,

also known as National Signing Day.

Ohio State finishing off its 2022 class in the next week or or and some change depending on how things work out I suppose.

Stephen, we're not going to go through the whole class today player by player.

That's going to be more about something that we do on signing day.

We've been talking about these players all along today.

It's going to be more about where things stand today and what's going to happen in the next week as a

Ohio State finishes off this class.

But if you could, give people sort of a brief summary of this class where it stands nationally.

And what has happened so far to get a Ohio State to the whatever it is,

16, 17 commitments that they have as of today.

Yeah, they've got 17 commits is the fourth best class in the country behind Georgia.

Texas and in Alabama, so basically behind the SEC power. So that be.

It's headlined obviously by CJ Hicks five star linebacker number seven player.

And top linebacker in the country at our Bishop Altar high school in Dayton, Ohio.

And that's what it's a it's a it's got to make sure of what you expect from Ohio State class at this point.

Some stop 100 guys who you expect to be able to play for you right away or at least by a year too.

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