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Strongside Defensive End Recruiting: Comparing Ohio State and Alabama

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April 20, 2015 at 4:34pm
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Suck it Saban.

Suck it Saban.

Apologies to those who read this before it went to Blog Heaven.

Ohio State defeated Alabama 42-35 in the Sugar Bowl. How have the Buckeyes fared against the Tide in recruiting since 2012? Over the next couple of weeks I will compare Ohio State's and Alabama's recruiting by position during the Urban Meyer era.

Between 2012-2015 Ohio State signed 7 strong-side defensive ends and Alabama signed 2 Strong-side strong-side defensive ends.

Urban Meyer puts a higher premium on on SDEs than Little Nicky does. Hopefully there will be another Bosa on this list soon.

 

2012-2015 SDE AVERAGES
O           
 
A
AVERAGE CATEGORY AVERAGE
6-4 HEIGHT 6-4
264 WEIGHT 258
.903 COMP. RATING .949
3.43 STARS 4.50

 

Bosa is Boss

Will Joey Bosa and Nick Bosa be Buckeyes at the same time? If they do opposing offensive lines and quarterbacks may want to take the week off when they play Ohio State.

 

2012-2015 SDE LISTED BY COMPOSITE RATING
TEAM YEAR PLAYER COMPOSITE RATING
A
2014 DA'SHAWN HAND .998
O
2013 JOEY BOSA .981
O
2015 JASHON CORNELL .956
       
O
2015 DRE'MONT JONES .938
A
2014 D.J. PETTWAY .900
O
2014 DYLAN THOMPSON .872
       
O
2015 JOSHUA ALABI .866
O
2013 TRACY SPRINKLE .859
O
2014 DARIUS SLADE .846

 

Jashon Cornell

Jashon Cornell has the highest composite rating of the three SDEs signed in 2015.

 

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