September 19, 2024

Ohio State football’s recruiting battle for 4-star DE Booker Pickett Jr.


COLUMBUS, Ohio — Breaking down the 35 highest-rated Ohio State targets in the 2024 football recruiting class heading into the summer: WHO: Booker Pickeett Jr., four-star edge rusher who plays for Wharton High School in Tampa, Florida. SIZE: 6-foot-3, 200 pounds. RANKING: The No. 7 edge rusher in the class of 2024, No. 93 player. THE BATTLE: Pickett holds offers from 37 schools, but he cut that list down to eight. OSU made the cut alongside Florida State, Georgia, Louisville, Miami, Penn State, South Carolina, Tennessee and USC. THE HOMESTATE FACTOR: The Seminoles are having a quality cycle currently holding the nation’s No. 8 class with two top 100 recruts. Neither of those are from within the state right now, but that could change heading into the summer. Miami on the otherhand is trying to repeat its 2023 efforts but doing so has come along much slower than a year…

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