September 22, 2024

"I Don't Know What You Did, But James Is Going To Pull The Trigger Today": How Ohio State's 2024 Commits Are Embracing Peer Recruiting

In the past few recruiting cycles, Ohio State has certainly benefited from the peer recruiting efforts of commits that locked themselves in to the Buckeyes’ class early ahead of National Signing Day. Each cycle has also seemed to have a commit that was the most vocal on social media about encouraging their peers to join them in Columbus. In the 2022 class, C.J. Hicks was so active in recruiting efforts both in-person and online he earned the nickname Captain Buckeye. For 2023, offensive lineman Luke Montgomery led the charge on Twitter and when out-of-state recruits took in-person visits to Ohio State. The early frontrunners for peer recruiting class leader in 2024 would likely be awarded to four-star offensive linemen and twin brothers Deontae and Devontae Armstrong, who put in a lot of work both publicly on Twitter and privately via text message and phone calls to help Ohio State land its…

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