Keith Wells Announcing Today

February 04 2008 12:05 AM -- Filed in: Recruiting | Football

If you've been following our recruiting coverage, you know Ohio State's recruiting class is waiting on three players to pledge. One of those players is defensive end Keith Wells of Gainesville, Georgia. It's been recently learned the 6'6" ultra athletic pass rusher will announce his choice Monday morning at 11:30am (sub. req). Want to know more about Keith, below is a video from a few weeks back:

Keith Wells talks relationships in recruiting

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Wells is rated by Rivals.com as the 15th ranked weakside defensive end and the 24th best prospect in his home state. While not exceptional numbers, his offer list - a better gauge of potential - is top notch. What was thought to be a two team race between Ohio State and Tennessee has suddenly become a three with the addition of Notre Dame. The Domers represent Wells' last official visit whereas Tennessee had the last in-home visit. Make of that what you will. I still feel positive about Ohio State's position and Wells seems to genuinely feel connected to JT (see above vid, OSU & JT mentioned toward the end).

Elsewhere, Josh Jenkins has narrowed his list to two: Ohio State and West Virginia. Florida State gets dropped. It's also looking more and more likely Terrelle Pryor will not announce his final decision on signing day. For those keeping score, I mentioned this possibility a week ago.

Ken Gordon writes an almost-good piece on Ohio State's recruiting philosophy. Points given for actually knowing and explaining correctly that the Big Ten can oversign in football. Negative points for failing to mention how far off we are in terms of scholarship players (roughly 10 short of the 85 limit). In other words, we aren't playing with a full deck which creates infinitesimal margins for error (ie; see offensive line recruiting/numbers).