Justin Hill hopes to learn more about ‘JACK’ position, Columbus on official visit to Ohio State
COLUMBUS — Ohio State kicks off its summer official visit weekends Friday when the first batch of 2025 prospects makes its way to campus.
Lettermen Row counts 10 official visits will happen this weekend. We ran through the list on Tuesday and will do so again on Friday.
Four-star Cincinnati (Ohio) Winton Woods EDGE Justin Hill is one of the highest-ranked prospects who will be in Columbus this weekend for an official visit, and he is perhaps the most important target of the group. On3 ranks Hill as the No. 52 overall prospect in the 2025 class and the No. 2 prospect in the state of Ohio, which makes him highest-ranked uncommitted player in the state.
Hill has visited Ohio State a handful of times in his recruitment so there is not much he needs to see from the Buckeyes, but he is hoping to get a better feel for campus and the Columbus area on his official visit.
“I want to just get the fact that I can live there,” Hill told Lettermen Row. “Obviously, I’m not far from home, if I were to go to that school. But I want to be able to be happy where I’m at.”
The 6-foot-3, 220-pound Hill is being recruited by the Buckeyes to play the “JACK” position in coordinator Jim Knowles‘ defense and is eager to hear more about how the coaching staff plans to implement the position if he does commit to Ohio State.
“Obviously, I gotta work to play,” Hill said. “But I want to be that — in that JACK position — that guy that they want. I’m gonna get ready and learn the defense. And they talked about when a commitment comes around that they’re going to slowly implement the defense and Coach [Larry] Johnson was talking about pass rush [and] when I can come up to camps to get 1-on-1 pass rush with them and a bunch of cool stuff.”
In the end, Hill has seen enough from Ohio State and is just happy to finally be taking his official visit to Columbus.
“I’m trying to think, it ain’t really a lot of things that I need to see from them,” he said, “because I’ve been up there a bunch. I mean, it’s a great, great place to play.”
Ohio State linebackers coach James Laurinaitis has been Hill’s primary recruiter in Columbus for several months, and he will be busy this weekend with four-star linebacker Riley Pettijohn and Ohio State linebacker commitment Tarvos “TJ” Alford on campus along with Hill. On the other hand, the Buckeyes are not expected to host any defensive line official visitors this weekend, so Johnson can spend ample time with Hill as well.
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