Ohio State added one other huge title to its 2023 recruiting class on Tuesday as four-star combo guard Taison Chatman dedicated to the Buckeyes on the 247Sports YouTube channel. Chatman, a consensus top-50 expertise from Totino-Grace Excessive College in Minneapolis selected OSU over Kansas, Virginia, Xavier and hometown Minnesota.
Chatman joins an Ohio State recruiting class that ranked No. 9 nationally previous to his dedication and can transfer up 4 spots to No. 5 within the staff rankings with him within the fold. Ranked because the the Class of 2023’s No. 31 participant by 247Sports, he turns into the highest-rated verbal dedication for Chris Holtmann and his workers not only for the cycle, however since Holtmann’s arrival in Columbus, Ohio, in 2017.
Ohio State’s class is comprised now of 4 commitments with three of the 4 score out as four-stars inside the highest 50. Chatman is the one of the quartet who profiles as a guard, with Scotty Middleton set to play ahead, Devin Royal set to play energy ahead and Austin Parks projecting out as a middle.
Chatman can play both guard spot however has the scoring acumen and off-ball capacity to suit properly as a two-guard in Ohio State’s system. His addition might match neatly into this system’s plans to fill out its recruiting class with level guard prospect Lawrent Rice, who was provided by the college final summer season, nonetheless on the board.
Ohio State has signed three top-25 courses for the reason that arrival of Holtmann in 2017, however its 2023 recruiting class seems to be proof of considerably improved success on that entrance. In his first 5 years, the highest-ranked class completed 14th nationally earlier than ending forty eighth and forty ninth in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Final 12 months the Buckeyes completed No. 8 within the staff rankings and are on monitor to once more end inside the highest 10.