{"id":63199,"date":"2024-09-01T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=63199"},"modified":"2024-09-01T10:11:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:11:24","slug":"ohio-states-2025-recruiting-class-adds-another-top-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2024\/09\/01\/ohio-states-2025-recruiting-class-adds-another-top-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State&#8217;s 2025 Recruiting Class Adds Another Top Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Ryan Day era, the Ohio State recruiting classes have been home to all kinds of top-end receiver talents. While the Buckeyes <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2024\/07\/05\/top-2025-wide-receiver-dakorian-moore-to-oregon-news\/\" target=\"_self\">have missed out<\/a> on the top 10 wide receivers in the 2025 class, they have been building up with other highly-rated recruits. On Saturday, August 31, as the Buckeyes were gearing up for\/taking down\/getting back from beating Akron, four-star Phillip Bell committed to the program.<\/p>\n<p>Bell is considered a four-star recruit by 247Sports and is the 30th-ranked receiver in the class. Additionally, he&#8217;s the 22nd-best player from the state of California. Bell becomes the 26th commit to the Buckeyes&#8217; top-ranked class and fourth wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State won a battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2024\/08\/02\/welcome-to-the-new-big-ten-usc-washington-oregon-and-ucla\/\" target=\"_self\">new Big Ten rival<\/a> USC for the California native. Bell is the first Californian in the Ohio State 2025 recruiting class.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Four-Star WR Phillip Bell III has Committed to Ohio State, he tells me for <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/On3Recruits?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@on3recruits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20192 195 WR from Mission Viejo, CA chose the Buckeyes over USC<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuckeye type, I love you mom <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/zone6ski?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#zone6ski<\/a>\u201d<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4BpvXSmOp6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/4BpvXSmOp6<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q6GtBghpA2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/q6GtBghpA2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hayesfawcett3\/status\/1830072778290045142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ohio State&#8217;s 2025 Recruiting Class Adds Phillip Bell<\/h2>\n<p>Hailing from Mission Viejo, California, Bell is a six-foot-three, 195-pound playmaker. He spent his first two seasons at Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento and was one of California&#8217;s top receivers from the jump. As a freshman, he hauled in 57 passes for 1,002 yards and 12 touchdowns. Then, as a sophomore, he amassed 818 yards and 20 touchdowns off 73 catches.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, in the jump in competition, he added 56 receptions for 633 yards and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Bell has great ball skills and incredible body control. 247Sports asserts that he is more quick than he is fast. With a great route-running ability to go with that agility, Bell can create the separation that a faster receiver couldn&#8217;t. Despite being a tad smaller, he can fight through contact and can win 50\/50 balls in the red zone. He&#8217;s as sure-handed as they come and can make the difficult catch with incredible concentration in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>His track speed\/acceleration is evident when he takes off after the catch. Further, he was one of the top performers from the SoCal Under Armour Next Camp in March.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63322\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63322\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/USATSI_24129508_168400542_lowres-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/USATSI_24129508_168400542_lowres-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/USATSI_24129508_168400542_lowres-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/USATSI_24129508_168400542_lowres-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/USATSI_24129508_168400542_lowres-1536x1085.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/USATSI_24129508_168400542_lowres-2048x1447.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy: Adam Cairns\/Columbus Dispatch \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/p>\n<p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another receiver has pledged to the Ohio State 2025 recruiting class. This time, it&#8217;s a four-star playmaker from USC&#8217;s back yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4051,"featured_media":63322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[7983,73,34077,3348],"class_list":["post-63199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bigten","category-featured","tag-big-ten-football","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-phillip-bell","tag-ryan-day"],"modified_by":"Tony Siracusa, CFB Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}