Ohio State offers five-star 2027 CB

Ohio State offered a 2027 five-star cornerback on Monday, and more recruits announced upcoming visits to Ohio State camps.

There is just a hair more than 100-days until Ohio State’s 2025 football schedule kicks off. The Buckeyes’ coaching staff will soon be getting to work preparing for a follow-up to last year’s championship winning season. Expectations will be incredibly high entering the new campaign, but that is nothing new for Ohio State head coach Ryan Day.

Day and the coaching staff are used to preparing for high expectation seasons, which is why the program is one of the best at recruiting both in the traditional sense and through the transfer portal. The next few weeks will be busy with recruiting, but it will only get busier when June begins.

The changing of the month will bring with it the Ohio State spring recruiting camp schedule, where the Buckeyes will be hosting dozens of the nation’s top recruits on visits. The weeks leading up to it, the staff will be visiting with and offering recruits they would like to soon host at said recruiting camps.

This occured on Monday, when the Buckeyes offered elite 2027 cornerback prospect Joshua Dobson (Fort Mill, SC / Catawba) an official scholarship offer.

Dobson is not just one of the top recruits at his position in the 2027 class, he is one of the top overall recruits. 247Sports has him listed as a five-star prospect in their composite rankings as the No. 3 CB and No. 6 overall recruit. He is also the top recruit out of the state of South Carolina.

With his impressive rankings also comes an impressive offer sheet, as the Buckeyes are far from the only ones targeting him. He holds more than two-dozen scholarship offers from the likes of Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Duke, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Indiana, Louisville, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Penn State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M and many more.

Of this group, no one school has truly separated themselves from the pack, but home state school South Carolina has been doing a good job at making him a priority.

There is plenty of time for Ryan Day and Tim Walton to become real contenders in his recruitment, and if the team is able to get him on campus this summer or during the season for a gameday experience, it will go a long way for them.

Ohio State, in large part because of Walton, has done much better at recruiting the secondary as of late. The Buckeyes currently hold commitments from multiple blue chip recruits in their 2026 class class including four-star safeties Blaine Bradford and Simeon Caldwell and four-star cornerbacks Jakob Weatherspoon and Jordan Thomas.

The Buckeyes are hoping this success carries into the 2027 class as well, already offering more than 20 recruits in the secondary.

Quick Hits

• Ohio State will soon be hosting handfuls of recruits on campus for summer recruiting camps. One camp already seems to be standing out as a busy one, which is the one on June 9, but all of them will be busy.

Multiple recruits took to social media on Monday to announced they will be attending the camp, and there will be many more to come as well. Below are just some of the recruits planning to attend the June 9 camp.