Ohio State football in tough fight for recruit with Clemson

Larry Johnson gets most recruits he wants as he is the best defensive line coach in the country. The Ohio State football team will need to try to grab another defensive end and pry him away from Dabo Swinny and the Clemson Tigers.

The Ohio State football team produces some great defensive ends. I’m not going to bore you recounting who they all are and how good they were. What’s important is that Larry Johnson knows how to recruit and develop the best defensive ends in the country.

He and Ryan Day are trying to pry one of the defensive ends in the class of 2022 away from Clemson. Kenyatta Jackson, a defensive end from Florida, seems to be choosing between the Buckeyes and the Tigers. 247Sports has each program with a 50/50 shot of landing him.

Jackson stands at 6’5 and 231 pounds and has a very good burst off the line of scrimmage. He is already really good and has the chance to develop into a true blue-chip prospect given the right coaching. Johnson would certainly be able to give him that.

Jackson will be on campus in late June, coming on June 25th. That will give Day and Johnson the best chance to convince him that Ohio State is where he needs to be. We already know how big the month of June is in terms of recruiting for the Ohio State football program.

You can never have too much talent on the edge. Even with the amount of talent the Buckeyes currently have on their roster out there, they love playing a rotation of guys. Jackson would be a valuable member of that rotation even as a freshman next season.

We won’t know what Jackson decides until at least the end of the month. As always, we will be on top of any development that happens involving him.