OSU lands S Smith, brother of star Buckeyes WR

Class of 2027 information Angelo Smith, the member of Ohio State prima wide receiver Jeremiah Smith, has committed to the Buckeyes, a root confirmed to ESPN Sunday night.

The younger Smith is simply a 5-foot-10, 165-pound inferior astatine Florida's Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School. In summation to Ohio State, helium held offers from Miami, Oklahoma State, Georgia State and Toledo. News of Smith's pledge was archetypal reported by Rivals.com.

Jeremiah was a three-time authorities champion astatine Chaminade-Madonna and landed with the Buckeyes successful the 2024 people arsenic 1 of the highest-ranked wide receiver prospects successful the ESPN recruiting rankings era, which began successful 2006.

A second-team All-American past fall, Jeremiah shattered Ohio State's freshman receiving records with 76 catches for 1,315 yards and 15 touchdowns successful a starring relation connected the Buckeyes' 2024 nationalist rubric team. He has logged 20 receptions for 315 yards with 3 receiving scores implicit the archetypal 3 games of his sophomore run successful 2025.

Angelo followed successful his brother's footsteps astatine Chaminade-Madonna, wherever helium was credited with 40 tackles, 11 walk interruption ups and 3 interceptions arsenic a sophomore past fall.

He present lands arsenic the 3rd subordinate of Buckeyes manager Ryan Day's 2027 recruiting class. Five-star wide receiver Jamier Brown, the No. 2 imaginable successful the ESPN Junior 300, has been committed to Ohio State since November. Quarterback Brady Edmunds, who gave his pledge to the Buckeyes connected Dec. 2, 2024, is ESPN's second-ranked pouch passer successful the cycle.

Ohio State holds 13 ESPN 300 pledges successful the program's 2026 recruiting class, which presently sits astatine No. 9 successful ESPN's nationalist people rankings for the cycle. After a bye week successful Week 4, the Buckeyes remained astatine No. 1 successful the latest AP Top 25 connected Sunday up of a Week 5 sojourn to Washington connected Saturday.