{"id":787180,"date":"2026-05-10T19:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787180\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:35:23","slug":"top-ohio-state-recruiting-targets-at-each-position-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787180\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ohio State recruiting targets at each position: Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/ohio-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ohio State<\/a><\/b> is three weeks away from beginning its official visit season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Buckeyes have 11 players committed in their 2027 class and are hoping to make many meaningful additions within the next few months, particularly at the top of their board.<\/p>\n<p>As such, we&#8217;re delving into who we believe could be Ohio State&#8217;s top remaining uncommitted targets at each position on each side of the ball. On Friday, we started by taking a look at offensive targets for Ohio State. Today, we&#8217;re focusing on the defensive side of the ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With that, we&#8217;re breaking down who we believe OSU views as the top target at each defensive position below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio State is three weeks away from beginning its official visit season.\u00a0 The Buckeyes have 11 players committed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-787180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116551963797050238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}