CB Devin Sanchez, top-10 recruit in 2025, chooses Ohio State - ESPN

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 pledge official during the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio and will be on campus beginning in January 2025.

«My plans are to just come in [with my] head down, just work because I know I'm not going to be at the top of the depth chart when I get there,» he told ESPN last month. «I'm coming in and [competing with] guys that already have been there, been in that system. So I'm ready to work in the weight room, on the field.

»I know me and how I am. And with this football stuff, especially, you know, I don't want to be on the bench. I don't want to be behind nobody. I want that starting spot, so I'm going to do whatever [I have] to do to get that starting spot and keep it, because college is not like high school.

«I don't want a coach to have second thoughts on me.»

In choosing Ohio State over Alabama and Texas A&M, Sanchez stressed that the communication with cornerbacks coach Tim Walton and safeties coach Perry Eliano was a primary selling point.

As a junior for North Shore High School in Houston, the 6-foot-2, 170-pound Sanchez recorded 32 tackles (12 solo) with 11 passes defended 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 joins a class for Ryan Day that features four ESPN 300 prospects, including St. Frances Academy (Maryland) cornerback Blake Woodby (No. 27 overall in 2025), who decided for Ohio State on Oct. 14.

Sanchez added that he silently committed to Day and the Buckeyes in early November, shortly after