{"id":325523,"date":"2023-08-23T17:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=325523"},"modified":"2023-08-23T17:57:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:57:36","slug":"watch-buford-5-star-dl-eddrick-houston-commits-to-ohio-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=325523","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Buford 5-star DL Eddrick Houston commits to Ohio State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buckeyeswire.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ohio State<\/a> is still trailing Georgia in the 2024 national recruiting rankings. However, they&#8217;ve been inching closer over the last several weeks and took a significant step forward on Tuesday by landing another blue-chip recruit.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Buford (Ga.) five-star defensive lineman Eddrick Houston announced his commitment to the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/2b50.png\" alt=\"\u2b50\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> Eddrick Houston from Buford, GA commits to Ohio State. Huge recruiting win for the Buckeyes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OyUj8fIWEL\">pic.twitter.com\/OyUj8fIWEL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Buckeye Nut (@TheBuckeyeNut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBuckeyeNut\/status\/1694349183074140651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Houston (6-foot-3, 265 pounds) had <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/recruitment\/eddrick-houston-144680\/recruitinterests\/\">offers from 21 other programs<\/a>, including Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, Oklahoma and USC.<\/p>\n<p>Rivals has Houston ranked as high as No. 3 at his position and No. 17 nationally in the class of 2024. None of the four major recruiting services have him ranked any lower than No. 9 at DL or No. 56 in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State has been steadily chipping away at No. 1 ranked Georgia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Season\/2024-Football\/CompositeTeamRankings\/\">once-insurmountable recruiting lead<\/a> in this cycle and it&#8217;s now down to 11 points.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Live-Stream High School Football:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfhsnetwork.com\/?irclickid=UT%3A2XXXaMxyNR4rR9dTovRG2UkF3vdRpzQoRxg0&amp;irgwc=1&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=impact&amp;utm_campaign=USA%20TODAY%20Sports%20Media%20Group&amp;utm_content=1205322&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NFHS Network<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>More football stories<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/tiktok-challenge-gets-georgia-hs-matchup-canceled-for-second-straight-year\">TikTok prank gets Georgia HS matchup canceled again<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/oregon-major-contender-for-4-star-mater-dei-ot-brandon-baker\">Oregon &#8216;major contender&#8217; for 4-star OT Brandon Baker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A big get for the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325525,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325523\/revisions\/325525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}