Our Honor Defend

Ohio State’s 2009 class is near completion, waiting on the decisions of no more than 3 or 4 commitments before February signing day.  Since the 2009 class was practically full before the beginning of the season, Buckeye recruitniks’ eyes have been turned to 2010 and beyond for some time.  Now, the Buckeyes are beginning to add to the 2010 class.  Having secured the verbal of JT Moore in September, the Buckeye staff adds the pledge of Jamel Turner today.  Turner is a Youngstown Ursuline product who projects at either DE or outside linebacker at the next level, though linebacker seems more likely given projections of his frame.

Turner was an OSU lean for some time, a sentiment bolstered by the fact that Turner was the subject of the first offer by Ohio State’s staff in the 2010 class.  He added offers from LSU, both Michigan schools, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Illinois (there’s a shock…) and Stanford, among others.  But it should come as no surprise that Turner selected the Buckeye helmet at today’s presser.  He says he looks forward to playing in front of his family and friends at the home school.  Turner, like all good Ohio kids, typifies the motto that all good Ohio kids aspire to play at Ohio State.  He will have to work on pronunciation of the university, though.  In the aforementioned Bucknuts article, he forgets to include the prefix of THE.

You can watch a highlight film here, courtesy of Scouting Ohio, if you’re interested.  Turner is an impressive athlete, whose prowess has merited conversation on him possibly being the no. 1 in-state recruit for the 2010 class.  Given the caliber of recruits in-state in 2010 (Macon, Hicks, Brown among others), I’ll shy away from that bold statement.  Still, Turner looks mighty impressive.  If you want a stat line to jump out at you immediately: the dude had 23 sacks as a sophomore… and, yes, that’s a sophomore highlight clip you’re watching from the link earlier in this paragraph.

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