CB Sanchez, top-10 hire in ’25, chooses Ohio St

Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Personnel WriterJan 6, 2024, 03:16 PM ET Ohio State bolstered its 2025 class Saturday with a commitment from four-star cornerback Devin Sanchez.Sanchez (No. 10 in

the 2025 ESPN 300 ), the second-best cornerback in the next cycle, made his promise official throughout the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio and will be on school start in January 2025.”My strategies are to just be available in [

with my] head down, just work since I know I’m not going to be at the top of the depth chart when I arrive,”he informed ESPN last month.”I’m can be found in and [taking on] guys that already have been there, been in that system. So I’m ready to work in the weight room, on the field.Editor’s Picks 1 Associated”I know me and how I am. And with this football things, particularly, you know, I do not want to

be on the bench.

I don’t want to be behind no one. I want that beginning area, so I’m going to do whatever [I have] to do to get that starting area and keep it, due to the fact that college is not like high school. “I don’t desire a coach to have second thoughts on me.”In picking Ohio State over Alabama and Texas A&M

, Sanchez worried that the communication with cornerbacks

coach Tim Walton and safeties coach Perry Eliano was a main selling point.As a junior for North Coast High School in Houston, the 6-foot-2, 170-pound Sanchez recorded 32 deals with( 12 solo)with 11 passes protected and five interceptions (one TD )for a team that won its first 15 games before losing to Duncanville High School in the state championship game.He signs up with a class for Ryan Day that includes 4 ESPN 300 potential customers, including St. Frances Academy( Maryland )cornerback Blake Woodby(No. 27 total in 2025 ), who chose for Ohio State on Oct. 14. Sanchez added that he quietly committed to Day and the Buckeyes in early November, shortly after taking in the Buckeyes’20-12 success over Penn State on Oct. 21– a modification from his original timeline

of later this fall.” I don’t truly like to lose,”he said.”I might have lost the state championship, however I might lose maybe one or two games a year. I do not really like losing. I don’t truly like losing three, four, five, six games.

I do not like that. I mean, Ohio State’s not going to lose no greater than two games. So, I suggest, that’s what I wish to be a part of. “And then, you understand, it’s simply the relationship part. I went to Ohio State and then I was expected to go to Alabama for the Alabama-LSU game a couple weeks later.

However it just didn’t occur. So I just shot and after that I just felt like I need to be a Buckeye.” Protective organizer Jim Knowles ‘unit set a various tone in his 2nd year considering that coming over from Oklahoma State during a 11-2 campaign in 2023– ending up 3rd in the nation in total defense(265.4 YPG )while owning the FBS’leading passing defense (145.9 YPG). However the Buckeyes’seven interceptions connected Illinois for fewest in the Huge Ten.And that’s where Sanchez says he can help.” What Coach Knowles and Coach Walton is carrying out in the back with the guys [stands apart] and I like how they play,”Sanchez stated.”And I believe the plan fits me.

They play a little off, and I believe I might play off and run with anyone. “However they’re also pressing and being physical at the line of scrimmage. That’s my type of ball right there. “