COLUMBUS, Ohio — Breaking down the 35 highest-rated Ohio State targets in the 2024 football recruiting class heading into the summer: © cleveland.com/TNS Buckeyes Recruiting logo WHO: Marquise Lightfoot, four-star edge rusher who plays for Kenwood High School in Chicago, Illinois. SIZE: 6-foot-5, 220 pounds. RANKING: The No. 8 edge rusher in the class of 2024, No. 101 player. THE BATTLE: Lightfoot holds offers from 39 schools and hasn’t publicly cut down his list of options yet. So far he’s scheduled official visits with the Buckeyes, Georgia, Miami and USC. THE HOMESTATE FACTOR: Ohio State’s had some recent success with kids from Chicago which can sometimes be a talent-rich area without a playoff-caliber in-state program to call home. Offensive lineman Jamarco Jones was the first in 2014 and now its done so in back-to-back classes with wide receivers Kaleb Brown — now at Iowa — Carnell Tate, who played his…
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