{"id":358999,"date":"2024-01-10T19:54:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T20:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=358999"},"modified":"2024-01-10T21:01:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:01:05","slug":"ohio-state-lands-4-star-edge-zahir-mathis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=358999","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State lands 4-star edge Zahir Mathis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zahir Mathis committed to Ohio State on Wednesday, giving the Buckeyes another big-time presence off the edge.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis, from Imhotep Charter (Philadelphia), is a consensus four-star recruit and another massive pick-up for <a href=\"https:\/\/buckeyeswire.usatoday.com\/\">Ohio State<\/a>. He is 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds. He is the No. 41 player in the nation <a href=\"https:\/\/n.rivals.com\/content\/athletes\/zahir-mathis-279588\">according to Rivals<\/a>, where is also the second-best edge in the class.<\/p>\n<p>Rivals ranks Mathis as Pennsylvania&#8217;s top recruit in the 2025 class. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/football\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/253629\/zahir-mathis\">ESPN has him No. 48 nationally.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He had offers from <a href=\"https:\/\/nittanylionswire.usatoday.com\/\">Penn State<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\/\">Alabama<\/a>, Florida State, <a href=\"https:\/\/ugawire.usatoday.com\/\">Georgia<\/a>, Ole Miss, South Carolina and <a href=\"https:\/\/rutgerswire.usatoday.com\/\">Rutgers<\/a> among others<\/p>\n<p>The class of 2025 recruit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/philadelphia\/imhotep-charter-panthers\/football\/stats\/#Player\">had 52 total tackles and five tackles for a loss<\/a>. He had three sacks during the season as Imhotep went 15-0.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed his commitment via X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Were Legends are made <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f31f.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf1f\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f330.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf30\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/R2X_Rushmen1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@R2X_Rushmen1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w1ntn3k2kJ\">pic.twitter.com\/w1ntn3k2kJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zahir Mathis (@ZahirMathis5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZahirMathis5\/status\/1745168768718782583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mathis joins a strong Ohio State class that is now fourth in the nation <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiostate.rivals.com\/commitments\/football\/2025\">with six players having given a verbal<\/a>. The Buckeyes got a major boost last week when David Sanchez, a five-star defensive back, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/devin-sanchez-a-5-star-defensive-back-commits-to-ohio-state\/ar-AA1myZDa\">committed to the program during the All-American Bowl.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Zahir Mathis commits to Ohio State.<\/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\/358999"}],"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=358999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359001,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358999\/revisions\/359001"}],"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=358999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}