Ohio State favored to beat out Michigan for three-star wide receiver

Michigan and Ohio State shot are presently successful a recruiting conflict for three-star wide receiver Jerquaden Guilford. Guilford is group to denote his committedness this Friday pinch six schools successful nan moving to onshore him, including Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Indiana, Ole Miss, and Tennessee.  

The Buckeyes are frontrunners to onshore Guilford, according to On3’s Steve Wiltfong. Wiltfong says that Ohio State is “going to beryllium difficult to beat” successful nan conflict for Guilford. Guilford precocious attended Ohio State’s recruitment camp.

As a 2026 prospect, Guilford is nan 68th-ranked wide receiver successful nan state and nan top-ranked subordinate successful nan authorities of Indiana. 

The 6-foot-2, 190-pound wide receiver will beryllium entering his elder twelvemonth astatine Northrop High School successful Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

While he’s only a three-star prospect, if nan Buckeyes onshore him, they person a estimation for processing wide receivers. 

247Sports projects that Guilford will perpetrate to Penn State connected Friday, but his caller praise astir Ohio State seems to bespeak that he is heading to Columbus.

The Buckeyes are looking to amended their wide receiver group aft having 1 of nan champion corps successful each of assemblage shot past play pinch Jeremiah Smith, Emeka Egbuka, and Carnell Tate. 

Smith and Tate will beryllium returning for nan defending nationalist champions this season, and nan Buckeyes are hopeful that Guilford is connected nan squad by nan clip 2026 rolls around.