We continue to follow the up and down recruiting momentum with four-star 2021 offensive guard prospect Jager Burton. When we last saw peeked in on Burton, he had routinely gone back and forth on which school was his favorite, but he has kept Ohio State in the mix all along near the top.
However, Kentucky eventually seemed to have emerged as the favorite to land the Lexington native. Burton had maintained that he would not make a college decision until he could do some follow up visits with all five of his top schools, but the coronavirus pandemic put the kibosh on that.
Now, with no real certainty to when recruits can go on official visits in the future, it appears the No. 8 ranked offensive guard in the country according to the 247Sports Composite Rankings, is ready to pull the trigger. Burton announced a decision date of August 30 on his Twitter profile Thursday.
The decision August 30th @6pm
Oregon #Scoducks
Clemson #Allin
Alabama #RTR
Ohio State #GoBucks
Kentucky #BBN
Committing on instagram first ig-jagerburton pic.twitter.com/yUld3xwBtZ— Jager Burton (@jager_burton) August 27, 2020
We’ll keep an eye on this, but it’s not looking very promising for Ohio State on this one. The Buckeyes have been the leader in the clubhouse with Burton before, but it looks like the inability to get him back to campus, and the pull of the hometown and home state Kentucky could be too much to overcome.
There’s still hope obviously, but if Burton does choose the Wildcats, he’ll do it over the Buckeyes, Oregon, Alabama, and Clemson.
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