In early June, Ohio State went to Virginia Beach, Va. and plucked the country’s second-ranked inside linebacker out of the Commonwealth, and put Teradja Mitchell in its 2018 recruiting class. Today, it’s another Virginia standout, Dinwiddie’s K’Vaughan Pope, who has made a verbal commitment to the Buckeyes. Pope is the country’s seventh-ranked inside linebacker, and although its questionable that he’s a middle linebacker (he’s more likely an outside linebacker, at least initially, at Ohio State), there’s no doubt that he is one of the country’s most explosive athletes. The Dinwiddie County star has chose the Buckeyes over Georgia, Florida, Clemson, Michigan State, Alabama and others, all who had offered him a scholarship. Early in his recruitment, it appeared that the Florida Gators had the inside track to land Pope, but in recent months, as communication with Buckeyes linebackers coach Billy Davis (with a Virginia-sized assist from Zach Smith), things slowly…
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