4-star EDGE Booker Pickett sets visit to Ohio State
Tampa (Fla.) Wharton four-star EDGE Booker Pickett will be at Ohio State on April 14. He announced the news on Twitter.
Pickett is the No. 100 overall prospect and No. 6 EDGE in the 2024 cycle, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He is also the No. 15 player in Florida.
The 6-foot-4, 201-pounder holds several Power Five offers and the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine currently has Miami as the favorite to land a commitment from Booker at 37% and Ohio State sitting not too far behind in second 21.9%.
Pickett’s trip back to Columbus will be his third but it’ll be his first time back on campus since last April.
On Feb. 14 Pickett announced his list of top nine schools and Ohio State made the cut alongside Florida State, Georgia, Louisville, Miami, Penn State, South Carolina, Tennessee and USC rounded out the list for Pickett.
““The Buckeyes are building something special up there and I know I’ll get developed there,” Pickett told On3 in February. “The relationship has been really consistent and we’re building a great bond.”
Pickett’s uncle Ryan Pickett was a former defensive tackle for the Buckeyes playing from 1998-2000.
Pickett currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $110K. The On3 NIL Valuation is the industry’s leading index that sets high school and college athletes’ projected annual value (PAV). The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.
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Ohio State continues picking up wins on the recruiting trail
This spring has been nothing but win after win after win for Ohio State on the recruiting trail.
The Buckeyes currently boast the No. 3 class in the country and the No. 1 class in the Big Ten with nine commitments. Five of those commitments have come in the last two weeks.
Three-star interior offensive lineman Marc Nave kicked off things for the Buckeyes at the beggining of the month with his commitment on March 3. Twin brothers and four-star offensive tackles Deontae Armstrong and Devontae Armstrong then announced the commitments on March 27.
San Antonio (Texas) Veterans Memorial four-star running back James Peoples committed to the Buckeyes on April 2 and two days later they added another commitment from a five-star wide receiver in New Haven (Ind.) standout Mylan Graham.
On April 8 the Buckeyes landed their quarterback of the future with a commitment from Fairburn (Ga.) Langston Hughes four-star quarterback Air Noland.
Ohio State’s other commitments include Five-Star Plus+ wide receiver Jeremiah Smith, four-star interior offensive lineman Ian Moore and four-star linebacker Garrett Stover.