One of the fastest-rising tight ends in the 2025 class is developing a strong relationship with Ohio State and tight ends coach Kevin Wilson.
Georgia prospect Emaree Winston took a visit to Ohio State earlier this summer June 6-7, eating dinner with Wilson on June 6 and camping with the Buckeyes on June 7. After an impressive workout at OSU, he received an offer from Wilson a few weeks later on June 28.
After a great conversation with coach @OSUCoachKDub I am extremely blessed to receive an offer from The Ohio State University! @ryandaytime @CoachTonyAlford @clays24 @coachcjcollins @CoachCrosby3 @MohrRecruiting @JeremyO_Johnson @Mansell247 @RWrightRivals @Bill_Kurelic pic.twitter.com/p2MGfzUAWO
— Emaree Winston (@e_wins2025) June 28, 2022
“I mean coach Wilson is an amazing guy, just having the opportunity to learn from coach Wilson was great,” Winston told Eleven Warriors. “When I heard from coach Wilson that they were going to offer me, it made my day because Ohio State is always one of the top schools in college football.”
The 6-foot-3, 230-pound tight end has received five Division I offers thus far, including Louisville, North Carolina State, Buffalo and Eastern Kentucky in addition to OSU.
“Ohio State is for sure a top school for me,” Winston said. “Being able to play under coach Wilson and playing in the enormous stadium (would be great).”
Winston said he hopes to visit OSU multiple times this fall and go to several different games.
“I will for sure be back up there,” Winston said.
Collins includes OSU on top 11, will commit July 20
Ohio State might already be getting good news from a tight end prospect on Sunday when four-star 2023 tight end Jelani Thurman will seemingly decide between the Buckeyes and Michigan State. The Buckeyes will have a chance to carry that momentum over to July 20 when 2024 four-star tight end Martavious Collins will make his college decision.
Collins set his July 20 commitment date Wednesday in addition to dropping his top 11, as Ohio State, Alabama, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, LSU, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisville, Auburn, Michigan State and Cincinnati all made the cut.
Commitment day coming soon July 20th @Mansell247 @ChadSimmons_ @JeremyO_Johnson @CoachHazelray @SWiltfong247 @RecruitGeorgia @Hayesfawcett3 @recruitgfx pic.twitter.com/7KPDawnPcC
— Martavious Collins (@Martavious122) July 13, 2022
Collins has recently visited Ohio State, Alabama, South Carolina, NC State, Louisville and Cincinnati. The 6-foot-3, 241-pound prospect visited Columbus twice, once in March for a spring practice and then again on April 16 for the Buckeyes’ spring game. He picked up his OSU offer on the March visit.
“When I got the offer, it felt good,” Collins told Eleven Warriors in April. “I had been working super hard for that moment.”
Kevin Wilson has told Collins he envisions him as a balanced tight end at the next level.
“(Coach Wilson) was telling me that he describes me as both a guy that can block and a guy that can go out and get balls and stuff,” Collins said. “He says the ones that can only block and not run routes or the ones that can only run routes but can’t block, they’re not as good as they can be. He loved that I could do both. I can split out wide or line up in the backfield.”
80% of OSU’s players are 5- and 4-star recruits
A fascinating article was written by 247Sports’ Bud Elliott on Wednesday, essentially laying out the 15 teams that are truly capable of winning it all in 2022. He selected those 15 teams based on what he refers to as a team’s Blue-Chip Ratio, which means what percentage of players on a team’s roster were five- or four-star recruits.
Alabama leads the country with an 89 percent Blue-Chip Ratio, followed by Ohio State at No. 2 with 80 percent. Pretty crazy to think that four out of every five scholarship players at Ohio State were at least four-star recruits.
Other schools on the list include Georgia (77 percent), Oklahoma (71), Texas A&M (70), Texas (68), LSU (66), Clemson (63), Notre Dame (62), Florida (60), Oregon (60), Michigan (59), Penn State (55), Miami (55) and Auburn (54).
