Chris Henry Jr., the son of the late NFL wide receiver and the adopted son of former NFL cornerback Adam «Pacman» Jones, committed to Ohio State on Friday.
Henry, a Class of 2026 wide receiver from Withrow University High School in Cincinnati, received an offer from the Buckeyes on June 6, 2022, shortly before his freshman year of high school. «I just felt like I was ready.
I was just tired of waiting,» Henry told ESPN. «I already knew where I wanted to go. So when I went back there, it just already felt like home and I already felt like this is where I wanted to be.» Chris Henry Sr., whose NFL career was hampered by multiple arrests, died in December 2009 when he fell out of the back of a pickup truck during a domestic dispute.
Jones, the younger Henry's adoptive father, was a close friend and teammate of Chris Henry Sr. at West Virginia from 2002 to 2004.