July 3, 2026

C.J. Hicks and Dasan McCullough are developing a friendship while building Ohio State football’s 2022 class: Buckeyes Recruiting Roundup


COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kansas linebacker Dasan McCullough of Blue Valley North High School vividly remembers what it was like telling C.J. Hicks that he was committing to Ohio State football. He’d just got off the phone with head coach Ryan Day and linebacker’s coach Al Washington to give them the good news. Next on his list was to call Hicks, who was headed home from football practice at Archbishop Alter High School. According to McCullough, his future teammate couldn’t contain himself and had to ask his mother to pull the car over so he could process what he’d just heard. He was the first name on a long list of players Hicks had been trying to bring into the Buckeyes 2022 recruiting class, and he’s off to a good start. He agreed that he was happy, but he wasn’t too sure about McCullough’s details of how everything played out. “I…

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